A light regulated OmpR-class promoter element co-ordinates light-harvesting protein and chromophore biosynthetic enzyme gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 319-332

  Alvey, Richard M ^a,b   Bezy, Ryan P ^a   Frankenberg Dinkel, Nicole ^c   Kehoe, David M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PCYA PROTEIN; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYCOCYANOBILIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; TETRAPYRROLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOBILISOMES; PHYCOCYANIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 34247494308     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05656.x     Document Type: Article

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