The essential gene set of a photosynthetic organism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 48, 2015, Pages e6634-e6643

  Rubin, Benjamin E ^a   Wetmore, Kelly M ^b   Price, Morgan N ^b   Diamond, Spencer ^a   Shultzaberger, Ryan K ^c   Lowe, Laura C ^a   Curtin, Genevieve ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^b,d   Deutschbauer, Adam ^b   Golden, Susan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Photosynthesis; RB TnSeq; Tn seq; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON METABOLISM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GLYCOLYSIS; INTRON; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TRANSPOSON; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84948658955     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519220112     Document Type: Article

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