The ycf27 genes from cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae: Distribution and implications for chloroplast evolution

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-30

  Ashby, Mark K ^a   Houmard, Jean ^b   Mullineaux, Conrad W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excitation energy coupling; Phycobiliprotein; rpaA; rpaB; Two component system

Indexed keywords

PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; DACTYLOCOCCOPSIS SALINA; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHYCOBILISOME; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS; TOLYPOTHRIX;

ALGAE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYCOBILISOMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DACTYLOCOCCOPSIS; DACTYLOCOCCOPSIS SALINA; EUKARYOTA; SALINA; SPIRULINA; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 7002; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803; TOLYPOTHRIX; TOLYPOTHRIX SP. PCC 7601;

EID: 0037183410     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00834-0     Document Type: Article

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