Light-dependent expression of four cryptic archaeal circadian gene homologs

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Maniscalco, Michael ^a   Nannen, Jennifer ^a,b   Sodi, Valerie ^a,c   Silver, Gillian ^a,d   Lowrey, Phillip L ^a   Bidle, Kelly A ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NJ State Police Office of Forensic Sciences DNA Lab   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Gene expression; Halophiles; Mutants

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; COLICIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CIR GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; KAIC GENE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84897938082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00079     Document Type: Article

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