Unique attributes of cyanobacterial metabolism revealed by improved genome-scale metabolic modeling and essential gene analysis

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

Volumn 113, Issue 51, 2016, Pages E8344-E8353

  Broddrick, Jared T ^a,b   Rubin, Benjamin E ^b,c   Welkie, David G ^c   Du, Niu ^d,e   Mih, Nathan ^f   Diamond, Spencer ^b,g   Lee, Jenny J ^b   Golden, Susan S ^b,c   Palsson, Bernhard O ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c San Diego   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint based modeling; Cyanobacteria; Synechococcus elongatus; TCA cycle|photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) TRANSHYDROGENASE; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL GROWTH; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DECARBOXYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC MODEL; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PHOTORESPIRATION; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHOTOTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TRANSPOSON; CHEMISTRY; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOTONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 85006401140     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613446113     Document Type: Article

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