CotB is essential for complete activation of green light-induced genes during complementary chromatic adaptation in Fremyella diplosiphon

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 781-793

  Balabas, Barbara E ^a   Montgomery, Beronda L ^a   Ong, Laura E ^a   Kehoe, David M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTB PROTEIN; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BLUE GREEN ALGA; COTB GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FREMYELLA DIPLOSIPHON; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYCOBILISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIGHT; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PHYCOERYTHRIN; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FREMYELLA DIPLOSIPHON;

EID: 0242606199     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03718.x     Document Type: Article

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