The proteins involved in sucrose synthesis in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 are encoded by two genes transcribed from a gene cluster

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4655-4660

  Cumino, Andrea C ^a   Perez Cenci, Macarena ^a   Giarrocco, Laura E ^a   Salerno, Graciela L ^a  

^a Fundacion para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Glucosyltransferase; Modular protein; Salt treatment; Sucrose phosphate phosphatase; Sucrose phosphate synthase

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUCROSE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 7002;

EID: 78249271725     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.040     Document Type: Article

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