A heme oxygenase isoform is essential for aerobic growth in the cyanobacterium synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Modes of differential operation of two isoforms/enzymes to adapt to low oxygen environments in cyanobacteria

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1744-1756

  Aoki, Rina ^a   Goto, Takeaki ^a   Fujita, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Cyanobacteriochrome; Heme oxygenase; Phycobilin; Protoporphyrin IX; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN; PHYCOCYANIN; PROTOPORPHYRIN; TETRAPYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AEROBIOSIS; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHLOROPHYLL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); LIGHT; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PHYCOCYANIN; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TETRAPYRROLES;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 80054705660     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr108     Document Type: Article

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