Integrated quantitative analysis of nitrogen stress response in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using metabolite and protein profiling

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1373-1396

  Wase, Nishikant ^a   Black, Paul N ^a   Stanley, Bruce A ^b   Dirusso, Concetta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; GC MS; iTRAQ; metabolite profiling; nitrogen stress; quantitative proteomics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOFUEL; CITRAMALIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; FATTY ACID; LIPID; METHIONINE; METHYL GROUP; NICOTIANAMINE; SORBITOL; STARCH; TREHALOSE; TRIETHANOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON METABOLISM; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENERGY YIELD; GLYCOLYSIS; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; MICROALGA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIBOSOME;

ALGAL PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CITRIC ACID; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NITROGEN; PROTEOME; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896768677     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr400952z     Document Type: Article

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