Effects of PII deficiency on expression of the genes involved in ammonium utilization in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 679-688

  Takatani, Nobuyuki ^a   Omata, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonium assimilation; Cyanobacterium; Gene regulation; Glutamine synthetase; PII protein; Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE I; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; NTCA PROTEIN, SYNECHOCOCCUS; PIID REGULATORY PROTEIN, BACTERIA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SIGE; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 33745404625     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj037     Document Type: Article

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