The cyanobacterial hepatotoxin microcystin binds to proteins and increases the fitness of Microcystis under oxidative stress conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zilliges, Yvonne ^a   Kehr, Jan Christoph ^b   Meissner, Sven ^b   Ishida, Keishi ^c   Mikkat, Stefan ^d   Hagemann, Martin ^d   Kaplan, Aaron ^e   Börner, Thomas ^a   Dittmann, Elke ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPHYCOCYANIN; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROCYSTIN; PHOSPHORIBULOKINASE; PHYCOCYANIN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SUBTILISIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ENZYME SUBUNIT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REDOX STRESS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; ENZYMOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROCYSTIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

LIGHT; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 79952802915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017615     Document Type: Article

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