Expression of the heat shock gene hsp16.6 and promoter analysis in the cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Current Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 192-198

  Fang, Feng ^a   Barnum, Susan R ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SORBITOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BASE PAIRING; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAT SHOCK; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT STRESS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 4344679234     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4340-5     Document Type: Article

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