Bipolar localization of putative photoreceptor protein for phototaxis in thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1585-1588

  Kondou, Youichi ^a   Mogami, Norifumi ^a   Hoshi, Fumiko ^a   Kutsuna, Shinsuke ^a   Nakazawa, Miki ^b   Sakurai, Tetsuya ^b   Matsui, Minami ^b   Kaneko, Takakazu ^c   Tabata, Satoshi ^c   Tanaka, Ichiro ^a   Manabe, Katsushi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Genomics Sciences Center   (Japan)

^c KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipolar localization; Methyl accepting chemotaxis protein; Photoreceptor; Phototaxis; Phytochrome; Thermophilic cyanobacterium

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYTOCHROME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301; SYNECHOCYSTIS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 12244253793     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf176     Document Type: Article

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