The small regulatory RNA SyR1/PsrR1 controls photosynthetic functions in cyanobacteria

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3661-3679

  Lokstein, Heiko ^a,d   Dienst, Dennis ^b,c   Schürgers, Nils ^a   Wallner, Thomas ^a   Kopp, Dominik ^a   Stazic, Damir ^a   Kuchmina, Ekaterina ^a   Klähn, Stephan ^a   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a   Wilde, Annegret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE E;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HALF-LIFE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84908252533     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.129767     Document Type: Article

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