Seeing green bacteria in a new light: Genomics-enabled studies of the photosynthetic apparatus in green sulfur bacteria and filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 265-276

  Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a   Bryant, Donald A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriochlorophyll a; Bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis; Bacteriochlorophyll c; Carotenoid biosynthesis; Chlorobium; Chloroflexus; Chlorosome; Functional genomics; Inorganic sulfur metabolism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CAROTENOID; HEME;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROBIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROFLEXUS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; ORGANELLES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SULFUR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROFLEXACEAE; CHLOROFLEXALES; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 6344256938     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-004-0718-9     Document Type: Short Survey

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