Nitrate/Nitrite Assimilation System of the Marine Picoplanktonic Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain WH 8103: Effect of Nitrogen Source and Availability on Gene Expression

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7009-7018

  Bird, Clare ^a   Wyman, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; ECOLOGY; GENES;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENES ENCODING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ABC TRANSPORTER; GENOMIC DNA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NTCA PROTEIN, SYNECHOCOCCUS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SEA WATER;

CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PICOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLNA GENE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NARB GENE; NIRA GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NRTP GENE; NTCA GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANKTON; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; PLANKTON; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2142860761     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7009-7018.2003     Document Type: Article

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