Hydrogenases and hydrogen photoproduction in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 71-91

  Ghirardi, Maria L ^a   Posewitz, Matthew C ^b   Maness, Pin Ching ^a   Dubini, Alexandra ^a   Yu, Jianping ^a   Seibert, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Green algae; Oxygen inhibition; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; OXYGEN;

CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 34250902424     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.58.032806.103848     Document Type: Review

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