Unusual accumulation of demethylspheroidene in anaerobic-phototrophic growth of crtA-deleted mutants of Rhodovulum sulfidophilum

Current Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-197

  Maeda, Isamu ^a,b   Yamashiro, Hidenori ^a   Yoshioka, Daiki ^b   Onodera, Masanori ^b   Ueda, Shunsaku ^b   Miyasaka, Hitoshi ^c   Umeda, Fusako ^a   Kawase, Masaya ^a   Takaichi, Shinichi ^d   Yagi, Kiyohito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; NORSPHEROIDENE; SPHEROIDENE MONOOXYGENASE CRTA; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DELETION MUTANT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOVULUM; RHODOVULUM SULFIDOPHILUM;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CAROTENOIDS; GENE DELETION; LIGHT; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOVULUM;

RHODOVULUM SULFIDOPHILUM;

EID: 24944439211     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-4560-3     Document Type: Article

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