Characterization of a mutant strain of Rhodovulum sulfidophilum lacking the pufA and pufB genes encoding the polypeptides for the light-harvesting complex 1 (B 870)

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 407-415

  Raiger Iustman, Laura J ^a   Kerber, Norma L ^a   Pucheu, Norma L ^a   Bornmann, Marc J ^b   Kohler, Simon ^b   Labahn, Andreas ^b   Tadros, Monier ^c   Drews, Gerhart ^b   García, Augusto F ^a  

^a Universidad de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Environmental and Biotechnology Laboratory GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deletion mutation; Energy transfer; Light harvesting polypeptides; Photosynthetic bacteria; Reaction center

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; KANAMYCIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFA GENE; PUFB GENE; PUFBA GENE; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOVULUM; RHODOVULUM SULFIDOPHILUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; RHODOVULUM; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOVULUM SULFIDOPHILUM;

EID: 33746062845     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-006-0108-6     Document Type: Article

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