The stringent response regulates adaptation to darkness in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus

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

Volumn 113, Issue 33, 2016, Pages E4867-E4876

  Hood, Rachel D ^a   Higgins, Sean A ^a   Flamholz, Avi ^a   Nichols, Robert J ^a   Savage, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(p)ppGpp; Cyanobacteria; Hibernation promoting factor; Stringent response; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; POLYPHOSPHATE; PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; DNA CONTENT; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIBERNATION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT CELL; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; STARVATION; STRESS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DARKNESS; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84982279506     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524915113     Document Type: Article

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