Transcriptome analysis of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides PpsR regulon: PpsR as a master regulator of photosystem development

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2148-2156

  Moskvin, Oleg V ^a   Gomelsky, Larissa ^a   Gomelsky, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PPSR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRRA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HEM C GENE; HEM E GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN TENSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULON; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RNA FINGERPRINTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 14644440779     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.6.2148-2156.2005     Document Type: Article

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