Circadian rhythms in the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus: Compensation of period length over a wide temperature range

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 4972-4977

  Onai, Kiyoshi ^a   Morishita, Megumi ^a   Itoh, Shino ^a   Okamoto, Kazuhisa ^a,b   Ishiura, Masahiro ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; LUCIFERASES; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS BP-1; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 3242812815     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.15.4972-4977.2004     Document Type: Article

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