Genes encoding A-type flavoproteins are essential for photoreduction of O2 in cyanobacteria

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 230-235

  Helman, Yael ^a   Tchernov, Dan ^a   Reinhold, Leonora ^a   Shibata, Mari ^b   Ogawa, Teruo ^b   Schwarz, Rakefet ^c   Ohad, Itzhak ^a   Kaplan, Aaron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FLAVOPROTEIN; IODOACETAMIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FLAVOPROTEINS; IODOACETAMIDE; LIGHT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0037311901     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00046-0     Document Type: Article

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