Identifying Regulatory Changes to Facilitate Nitrogen Fixation in the Nondiazotroph Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 250-258

  Mueller, Thomas J ^a   Welsh, Eric A ^b   Pakrasi, Himadri B ^c,d   Maranas, Costas D ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computational biotechnology; cyanobacteria; Cyanothece; gene regulatory network; modeling; Synechocystis

Indexed keywords

CYANOPHYCIN; GLYCOGEN; LEXA PROTEIN; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LEXA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RCP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RCP1 PROTEIN, SYNECHOCYSTIS; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CYANOTHECE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GLYCOGENOLYSIS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOTHECE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84961727418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00202     Document Type: Article

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