Glutamine synthetase from the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp.: Characterization, phylogeny and response to nutrient limitation

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 412-423

  El Alaoui, Sabah ^a   Diez, Jesús ^a   Toribio, Fermín ^a   Gómez Baena, Guadalupe ^a   Dufresne, Alexis ^b   García Fernández, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IRON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0038062765     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00433.x     Document Type: Article

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