Differential transcriptional analysis of the cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142 during light-dark and continuous-light growth

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3904-3913

  Toepel, Jörg ^a   Welsh, Eric ^b   Summerfield, Tina C ^a   Pakrasi, Himadri B ^b   Sherman, Louis A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FERREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCOGEN; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN; PROTEIN NIFB; PROTEIN NIFH; PROTEIN NIFX; THIOREDOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; BREATHING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM CYANOTHECE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY YIELD; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; INHIBITION KINETICS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYANOTHECE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOPERIOD; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOTHECE;

EID: 44349119272     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00206-08     Document Type: Article

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