Inactivation of a predicted leader peptidase prevents photoautotrophic growth of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3071-3078

  Zhbanko, Maria ^a,b   Zinchenko, Vladislav ^b   Gutensohn, Michael ^a   Schierhorn, Angelika ^a   Klösgen, Ralf Bernd ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDASE I; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE II;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE INSERTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HOMOZYGOTE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOME; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 17644416014     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.9.3071-3078.2005     Document Type: Article

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