New insights into metabolic properties of marine bacteria encoding proteorhodopsins

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Sabehi, Gazalah ^a   Loy, Alexander ^b   Jung, Kwang Hwan ^c,e   Partha, Ranga ^c   Spudich, John L ^c   Isaacson, Tal ^d   Hirschberg, Joseph ^d   Wagner, Michael ^b   Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; OXIDIZING AGENT; PROTEORHODOPSIN; SULFITE REDUCTASE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAROTENOID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RHODOPSIN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALCULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROKARYOTE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; INDIAN OCEAN; LIGHT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPSIN; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 23944505538     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030273     Document Type: Article

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