Light-dependent regulation of photosynthesis genes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 is coordinately controlled by photosynthetic electron transport via the PrrBA two-component system and the photoreceptor AppA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 903-914

  Happ, Hendrik N ^a   Braatsch, Stephan ^a,b   Broschek, Vera ^a   Osterloh, Lisa ^a,c   Klug, Gabriele ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BLUE LIGHT; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES 2.4.1;

EID: 27444435780     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04882.x     Document Type: Article

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