Phase Determination of Circadian Gene Expression in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-112

  Min, Hongtao ^a   Liu, Yi ^b,c   Johnson, Carl H ^b   Golden, Susan S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian; Cyanobacterium; DNA topology; Phase; PurF; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PURF GENE; REPORTER GENE; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942;

EID: 1642285223     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730403262056     Document Type: Article

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