Cyanophycin production in a phycoerythrin-containing marine Synechococcus strain of unusual phylogenetic affinity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1772-1777

  Wingard, Lauren L ^a   Miller, Scott R ^a   Sellker, Jeanne M L ^a   Stenn, Erik ^a   Allen, Mary M ^a   Wood, A Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ECOLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY; NITROGEN; PROTEINS;

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA;

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYANOPHYCIN; DNA 16S; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRILE; NITROGEN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYANOBACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SALT TOLERANCE;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, RRNA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 0036206049     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.4.1772-1777.2002     Document Type: Article

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