Comparative protein expression in different strains of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Alexova, Ralitza ^a   Haynes, Paul A ^b   Ferrari, Belinda C ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CARBON; MICROCYSTIN; NITROGEN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EUTROPHICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROCYSTIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EUTROPHICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; NITROGEN; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 80052715103     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M110.003749     Document Type: Article

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