A green light-absorbing phycoerythrin is present in the high-light-adapted marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus sp. MED4

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1611-1618

  Steglich, Claudia ^a,d   Frankenberg Dinkel, Nicole ^b   Penno, Sigrid ^c   Hess, Wolfgang R ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CPEB PROTEIN, SYNECHOCOCCUS; GLYCOFUROL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; PHYCOBILIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYCOERYTHROBILIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TETRAPYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOERYTHRIN; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PYRROLES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TETRAPYRROLES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 25144513583     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00855.x     Document Type: Article

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