Transcription and regulation of the bidirectional hydrogenase in the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5435-5446

  Sjöholm, Johannes ^a   Oliveira, Paulo ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOASSAY; BIOCATALYSTS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; TRANSCRIPTION;

HYDROGENASE; NITROGEN FIXING CONDITIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL START POINTS;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

HYDROGENASE; LEXA PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECF PROTEIN;

CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REGULATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; HOXE GENE; HOXF GENE; HOXH GENE; HOXU GENE; HOXY GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NOSTOC; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; RECA GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; START CODON; STRUCTURAL GENE; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSTOC; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

ANABAENA SP.; NOSTOC SP.; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 34548506000     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00756-07     Document Type: Article

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