Organization and expression of photosynthesis genes and operons in anoxygenic photosynthetic proteobacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2267-2276

  Liotenberg, Sylviane ^a   Steunou, Anne Soisig ^a   Picaud, Martine ^a   Reiss Husson, Françoise ^a   Astier, Chantal ^a   Ouchane, Soufian ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PIGMENT;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RUBRIVIVAX GELATINOSUS;

EID: 48749106463     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01649.x     Document Type: Article

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