Hierarchical regulation of photosynthesis gene expression by the oxygen-responsive PrrBA and AppA-PpsR systems of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8106-8114

  Gomelsky, Larissa ^a   Moskvin, Oleg V ^a   Stenzel, Rachel A ^b   Jones, Denise F ^b   Donohue, Timothy J ^b   Gomelsky, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PPSR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 57349098262     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01094-08     Document Type: Article

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