Characterization and transcriptional analysis of hupSLW in Gloeothece sp. ATCC 27152: An uptake hydrogenase from a unicellular cyanobacterium

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3647-3655

  Oliveira, Paulo ^a,c   Leitão, Elsa ^b   Tamagnini, Paula ^a,b   Moradas Ferreira, Pedro ^a,b   Oxelfelt, Fredrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOEOTHECE; HYBRIDIZATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLOEOTHECE SP.; GLOEOTHECE SP. PCC 6909;

EID: 9144230789     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27248-0     Document Type: Article

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