Identification and upregulation of biosynthetic genes required for accumulation of mycosporine-2-glycine under salt stress conditions in the halotolerant cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1763-1769

  Waditee Sirisattha, Rungaroon ^a,b   Kageyama, Hakuto ^a   Sopun, Warangkana ^a,b   Tanaka, Yoshito ^a   Takabe, Teruhiro ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; INORGANIC SALT; MYCOSPORINE 2 GLYCINE; MYCOSPORINE-2-GLYCINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UPREGULATION;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84894077588     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03729-13     Document Type: Article

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