Nitrogen or sulfur starvation differentially affects phycobilisome degradation and expression of the nblA gene in Synechocystis strain PCC 6803

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2989-2994

  Richaud, Catherine ^a   Zabulon, Gérald ^a   Joder, Annette ^a   Thomas, Jean Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN; PHYCOBILISOMES; PLANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFUR;

CYANOBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0035036517     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.10.2989-2994.2001     Document Type: Article

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