Blue light stimulates cyanobacterial motility via a cAMP signal transduction system

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 303-309

  Terauchi, Kazuki ^a,b   Ohmori, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CYCLIC AMP; PHENYLACETIC ACID; QUERCETIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLUE LIGHT; CELL LEVEL; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYA1 GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE DISRUPTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANTIMETABOLITES; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MOVEMENT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENYLACETATES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 1942519865     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03980.x     Document Type: Article

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