Identification and in vivo characterization of PpaA, a regulator of photosystem formation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 377-388

  Gomelsky, Larissa ^a   Sram, Jakub ^a   Moskvin, Oleg V ^a   Horne, Irene M ^b   Dodd, Helen N ^b   Pemberton, John M ^b   McEwan, Alastair G ^b   Kaplan, Samuel ^c   Gomelsky, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CORRINOID; KANAMYCIN; PROTEIN AERR; PROTEIN PPAA; PROTEIN PPSR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; OPERON; OXYGEN TENSION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEROBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CORRINOIDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PORPHYRINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0037291329     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25972-0     Document Type: Review

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