Redox and light regulation of gene expression in photosynthetic prokaryotes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1429, 2003, Pages 147-154

  Bauer, Carl ^a   Elsen, Sylvie ^a,b   Swem, Lee R ^a   Swem, Danielle L ^a   Masuda, Shinji ^a,c   Blankenship, R E ^f   Allen, J F ^d   Martin, W ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Aerobic repression; Global regulation; Photosynthesis; Respiration

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROKARYOTE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0037471713     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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