The sufR Gene (sll0088 in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803) Functions as a Repressor of the sufBCDS Operon in Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis in Cyanobacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 956-967

  Wang, Tao ^a   Shen, Gaozhong ^a   Balasubramanian, Ramakrishnan ^a   McIntosh, Lee ^b   Bryant, Donald A ^a   Golbeck, John H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IRON METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRESSOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUFBCDS OPERON; SUFR GENE; SYNECHOCYSTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 1142298511     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.4.956-967.2004     Document Type: Article

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