Analysis of the hupSL operon of the nonheterocystous cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula CCAP 1446/4: Regulation of transcription and expression under a light-dark regimen

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4567-4576

  Leitão, Elsa ^a   Oxelfelt, Fredrik ^a   Oliveira, Paulo ^a,c   Moradas Ferreira, Pedro ^a,b   Tamagnini, Paula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DEGRADATION; GENES; NITROGEN; PROTEINS;

FILAMENTOUS; HYDROGENASE; SILICO ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS;

BACTERIA;

ANTIBODY; HYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; SPACER DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUPSL GENE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LYNGBYA MAJUSCULA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DARKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; LYNGBYA MAJUSCULA;

EID: 23744503478     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4567-4576.2005     Document Type: Article

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