Sigma factors for cyanobacterial transcription

S Imamura, M Asayama - Gene regulation and systems …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthesizing microorganisms that can be used as a model for
analyzing gene expression. The expression of genes involves transcription and translation …

Quantitative Overview of N2 Fixation in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 through Cellular Enrichments and iTRAQ Shotgun Proteomics

SY Ow, J Noirel, T Cardona, A Taton… - Journal of Proteome …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 is a photoautotrophic cyanobacterium with the capacity to
fix atmospheric N2. Its ability to mediate this process is similar to that described for Nostoc …

Multiple alternate transcripts direct the biosynthesis of microcystin, a cyanobacterial

M Kaebernick, E Dittmann, T Börner… - Applied and …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mcyABCDEFGHIJ gene cluster of Microcystis aeruginosa encodes the mixed polyketide
synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetase (microcystin synthetase) which is responsible for …

Positive regulation of sugar catabolic pathways in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by the group 2 σ factor SigE

T Osanai, Y Kanesaki, T Nakano, H Takahashi… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
The sigE gene of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 encodes a group 2 σ factor for RNA
polymerase and has been proposed to function in transcriptional regulation of nitrogen …

Nitrogen Induction of Sugar Catabolic Gene Expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

T Osanai, S Imamura, M Asayama, M Shirai… - DNA …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen starvation requires cells to change their transcriptome in order to cope with this
essential nutrient limitation. Here, using microarray analysis, we investigated changes in …

Global Gene Expression Patterns of Nostoc punctiforme in Steady-State Dinitrogen-Grown Heterocyst-Containing Cultures and at Single Time Points during the …

EL Campbell, ML Summers, H Christman… - Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
The vegetative cells of the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme can differentiate
into three mutually exclusive cell types: nitrogen-fixing heterocysts, spore-like akinetes, and …

A response regulator Rre37 and an RNA polymerase sigma factor SigE represent two parallel pathways to activate sugar catabolism in a cyanobacterium …

M Azuma, T Osanai, MY Hirai… - Plant and cell …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Sugar catabolic genes are induced during nitrogen starvation in a cyanobacterium
Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, but the underlying regulatory mechanism still remains to be …

The Unique Cyanobacterial Protein OpcA Is an Allosteric Effector of Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase in Nostoc punctiformeATCC 29133

KD Hagen, JC Meeks - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2001 - ASBMB
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), encoded by zwf, is essential for nitrogen
fixation and dark heterotrophic growth of the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme ATCC …

Sugar catabolism regulated by light- and nitrogen-status in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

T Osanai, M Azuma, K Tanaka - Photochemical & Photobiological …, 2007 - Springer
In photosynthetic organisms, sugar catabolic pathways, such as glycolysis and the oxidative
pentose phosphate pathway, are indispensable for survival in the absence of light. In this …

An iTRAQ-Based Quantitative Analysis To Elaborate the Proteomic Response of Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 under N2 Fixing Conditions

K Stensjö, SY Ow, ME Barrios-Llerena… - Journal of proteome …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 is an oxygen-evolving photoautotrophic N2 fixing filamentous
cyanobacterium. Upon nitrogen starvation, a range of processes are initiated, such as …