Cyanobacterial hydrogenases: Diversity, regulation and applications

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 692-720

  Tamagnini, Paula ^a,b   Leitão, Elsa ^a   Oliveira, Paulo ^c   Ferreira, Daniela ^a,b   Pinto, Filipe ^a   Harris, David James ^b,d   Heidorn, Thorsten ^c   Lindblad, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; hox; hup; Hydrogenase; hyp; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON; LEXA PROTEIN; NICKEL; NITROGEN; NTCA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODIVERSITY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FERMENTATION; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HAX GENE; HOX GENE; HOXW GENE; HUP GENE; HUPW GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 35448935699     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00085.x     Document Type: Review

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