Photoautotrophic polyhydroxybutyrate granule formation is regulated by cyanobacterial phasin PhaP in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4411-4422

  Hauf, Waldemar ^a   Watzer, Björn ^a   Roos, Nora ^a   Klotz, Alexander ^a   Forchhammer, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; DICHROISM; METABOLISM; OLIGOMERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; BIOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITIES; CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGOMERIC STRUCTURE; SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; TRANSLATIONAL FUSION;

GRANULATION;

AUTOTROPHY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOENGINEERING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FIXATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMER; PROTEIN;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; PHAP PROTEIN, BACTERIA; POLY-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; POLYESTER; PROTEIN BINDING;

CELL GRANULE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOTOTROPHY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; POLYESTERS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 84930791694     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00604-15     Document Type: Article

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