Overexpression of the groESL operon enhances the heat and salinity stress tolerance of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC7120

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 6008-6012

  Chaurasia, Akhilesh Kumar ^a   Apte, Shree Kumar ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ANABAENA SP; BICISTRONIC; CYANOBACTERIUM ANABAENA; EXPRESSION VECTORS; OVER-EXPRESSION; SALINITY STRESS;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 10; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60;

CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEATING; NITROGEN FIXATION; RECOMBINATION; SALINITY;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GROESL GENE; HEAT STRESS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SALT STRESS;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SALINITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 70149106378     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00838-09     Document Type: Article

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