Sucrose synthase in unicellular cyanobacteria and its relationship with salt and hypoxic stress

Planta

Volumn 235, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 955-964

  Kolman, María A ^a   Torres, Leticia L ^a,b   Martin, Mariana L ^a   Salerno, Graciela L ^a  

^a Fundacion para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gloeobacter violaceus; Hypoxia; Microcystis aeruginosa; Salt stress; Sucrose metabolism; Thermosynechococcus elongatus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL HYPOXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HALOPHYTE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MICROCYSTIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CELL HYPOXIA; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MICROCYSTIS; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCROSE;

CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLOEOBACTER VIOLACEUS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA PCC 7806; SUS; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS BP-1; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84860218120     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1542-5     Document Type: Article

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