Temporal orchestration of glycogen synthase (glgA) gene expression and glycogen accumulation in the oceanic picoplanktonic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain WH8103

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4744-4747

  Wyman, Michael ^a   Thom, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; DIEL CYCLES; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; MRNA ABUNDANCES; PICOCYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; REGULATORY CONTROL; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL RNA; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; PICOPLANKTON; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TIME FACTORS;

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 84864077086     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00254-12     Document Type: Article

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