Coastal strains of marine Synechococcus species exhibit increased tolerance to copper shock and a distinctive transcriptional response relative to those of open-ocean strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5047-5057

  Stuart, Rhona K ^a   Dupont, Chris L ^a,b   Johnson, D Aaron ^b   Paulsen, Ian T ^c   Palenik, Brian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLING; COPPER TOXICITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXPRESSION MICROARRAY; GENE TRANSCRIPTS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; STRESS RESPONSE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE;

ALGAE CONTROL; COPPER; DISSOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

STRAIN;

COPPER; ORGANIC CARBON;

ACCLIMATION; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPPER; DIVERGENCE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OPEN OCEAN; OSMOREGULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION TOLERANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON CYCLING; CLADISTICS; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MARINE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; METAL TOLERANCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SHOCK; STRESS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COPPER; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 67651251795     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00271-09     Document Type: Article

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