Schriek, Sarah; Rückert, Christian ; Staiger, Dorothee; Pistorius, Elfriede K.; Michel, Klaus-Peter: Bioinformatic evaluation of L-arginine catabolic pathways in 24 cyanobacteria and transcriptional analysis of genes encoding enzymes of L-arginine catabolism [...]. In: BMC Genomics. Jg.8 H. 1. 2007
Inhalt
- Background
- Results and Discussion
- Evaluation of 24 cyanobacterial genomes for the presence of genes encoding enzymes of L-arginine-degrading pathways
- L-arginine decarboxylase pathway
- Arginase pathway
- L-arginine amidinotransferase pathway
- L-arginine deiminase pathway
- L-arginine oxidase/dehydrogenase pathway
- L-arginine succinyl transferase pathway
- Problems related to the bioinformatic analysis
- Identification of genes encoding enzymes of L-arginine catabolizing pathways in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
- Detection of transcripts for L-arginine-degrading enzymes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
- Conclusion
- Methods
- Bioinformatic analyses and tools for the interpretation of genomic DNA sequences
- Cyanobacterial strains, growth conditions, and cell harvest
- Quantification of steady-state mRNA pools of selected transcripts with slot-blot RNA hybridization analysis
- Authors' contributions
- Acknowledgements
- References