Metabolic pathways for photobiological hydrogen production by nitrogenase- and hydrogenase-containing unicellular cyanobacteria Cyanothece

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2777-2786

  Skizim, Nicholas J ^a,b   Ananyev, Gennady M ^a   Krishnan, Anagha ^a   Dismukes, G Charles ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGENASES; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PHOTOBIOLOGICAL HYDROGEN; PLASTOQUINONE; PRODUCTION RATES; PROTON GRADIENT; REDUCTANTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBOHYDRATES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROTONS;

PHOTOBIOLOGICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FLAVONE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; PLASTOQUINONE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE 1; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOTHECE; DARKNESS; ENZYME INHIBITION; FERMENTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL REDUCTION; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOTHECE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; NITROGENASE; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX;

CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE;

EID: 84856077920     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.302125     Document Type: Article

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