Environmental pH affects photoautotrophic growth of synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strains carrying mutations in the lumenal proteins of PSII

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 859-874

  Summerfield, Tina C ^a   Crawford, Tim S ^a   Young, Roger D ^a   Chua, Jocelyn P S ^a   MacDonald, Rebecca L ^a   Sherman, Louis A ^b   Eaton Rye, Julian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaline pH; Gene expression; Oxidative stress; Photosynthesis; PSII extrinsic proteins; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BUFFER; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; MESSENGER RNA; ROSE BENGAL; SINGLET OXYGEN;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROTROPHY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PSII EXTRINSIC PROTEINS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

ALKALINE PH; GENE EXPRESSION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PSII EXTRINSIC PROTEINS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUFFERS; CHLOROPHYLL; CULTURE MEDIA; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; RNA, MESSENGER; ROSE BENGAL; SINGLET OXYGEN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

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

EID: 84878851659     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct036     Document Type: Article

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