Article
Identification of two genes, sll0804 and slr1306, as putative components of the CO2-concentrating mechanism in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2008
Zhang Shulu, Spann Kevin W, Frankel Laurie K, Moroney James V, Bricker Terry M
Abstract excerpt
Insertional transposon mutations in the sll0804 and slr1306 genes were found to lead to a loss of optimal photoautotrophy in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 grown under ambient CO(2) concentrations (350 ppm). Mutants containing these insertions (4BA2 and 3ZA12, respectively) could grow photoheterotrophically on glucose or photoautotrophically at elevated CO(2) concentrations (50,000 ppm)....
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carbon Dioxide
- Genes, Bacterial
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Oxygen
- Phenotype
- Photosynthesis
- RNA, Bacterial
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Synechocystis