Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7285, 2010, Pages 90-94

  Tripp, H James ^a   Bench, Shellie R ^a   Turk, Kendra A ^a   Foster, Rachel A ^a   Desany, Brian A ^b   Niazi, Faheem ^b   Affourtit, Jason P ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b A Roche Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPEN OCEAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CHLOROPLAST; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; EVOLUTION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FERMENTATION; FRACTIONATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LIGHT; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NATURAL POPULATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; NUTRIENT; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PYROSEQUENCING; SYMBIOSIS; UCYN A BACTERIUM;

CARBON; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 77950863797     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08786     Document Type: Article

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