A cyanobacterial strain with all chromosomal rRNA operons inactivated: A single nucleotide mutation of 23S rRNA confers temperature-sensitive phenotypes

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1417-1425

  Monshupanee, Tanakarn ^a   Fa Aroonsawat, Sirirat ^a   Chungjatupornchai, Wipa ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE DELETION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942;

EID: 33646785377     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28691-0     Document Type: Article

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