Identification of hox genes and analysis of their transcription in the unicellular cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa alpicola CALU 743 growing under nitrate-limiting conditions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 229-233

  Sheremetieva, Marina E ^a,b   Troshina, Olga Y ^a,b   Serebryakova, Larissa T ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bidirectional hydrogenase; Cyanobacteria; hox genes; Nitrogen starvation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYDROGENASE; NITRATE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOEOCAPSA ALPICOLA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

CYANOBACTERIA; NITRATES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; CYANOBACTERIA; GLOEOCAPSA; GLOEOCAPSA ALPICOLA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6308; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 0037057140     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00894-7     Document Type: Article

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