Desaturase genes in a psychrotolerant Nostoc sp. are constitutively expressed at low temperature

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 362, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-87

  Chintalapati, Suresh ^a   Prakash, J S S ^a   Singh, Ashish K ^a   Ohtani, Shuji ^c   Suzuki, Iwane ^d   Murata, Norio ^b   Shivaji, Sisinthy ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Constitutive expression; Cyanobacteria; Des genes; Desaturases; Fatty acid composition; Nostoc sp.; Psychrotolerant; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESATURASE GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NOSTOC; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE; UP-REGULATION;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 34548078421     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.150     Document Type: Article

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