Sulfate-driven elemental sparing is regulated at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels in a filamentous cyanobacterium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1449-1460

  Gutu, Andrian ^a,b   Alvey, Richard M ^a,c   Bashour, Sami ^a   Zingg, Daniel ^a,d   Kehoe, David M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PHYCOCYANIN; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLEACHING; CHLOROSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYANOBACTERIUM; FRESHWATER SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYCOBILISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PHYCOBILISOMES; PHYCOCYANIN; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFATES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; FREMYELLA DIPLOSIPHON; TOLYPOTHRIX SP. PCC 7601;

EID: 79952418108     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00885-10     Document Type: Article

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