NblC, a novel component required for pigment degradation during starvation in Synechococcus PCC 7942

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 659-668

  Sendersky, Eleonora ^a   Lahmi, Roxane ^a   Shaltiel, Judith ^a   Perelman, Alexander ^a   Schwarz, Rakefet ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SULFUR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHYCOBILISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHYCOBILISOMES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFUR; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942;

EID: 27444447577     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04844.x     Document Type: Article

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