Hydrogenases in green algae: Do they save the algae's life and solve our energy problems?

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 246-250

  Happe, Thomas ^a   Hemschemeier, Anja ^a   Winkler, Martin ^a   Kaminski, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON HYDROGENASE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; HUMAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEROBIOSIS; ALGAE, GREEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; FORMIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036618091     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02274-4     Document Type: Review

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