Journal article

Publication year: 2006

Pages: 2730-2734

Journal: Journal of Bacteriology

Volume number: 188

Issue number: 7

ISSN: 0021-9193

eISSN: 1098-5530

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.188.7.2730-2734.2006

Publisher: American Society for Microbiology

Abstract: 
Cyanophycin (multi-(L)-arginyl-poly-(L)-aspartic acid) is a nitrogen storage polymer found in most cyanobacteria and some heterotrophic bacteria. The cyanobacterium Synechoeystis sp. strain PCC 6803 accumulates cyanophycin following a transition from nitrogen- limited to nitrogen-excess conditions. Here we show that the accumulation of cyanophycin depends on the activation of the key enzyme of arginine biosynthesis, N-acetyl-(L)-glutamate kinase, by signal transduction protein P-II.

Harvard Citation style: Maheswaran, M., Ziegler, K., Lockau, W., Hagemann, M. and Forchhammer, K. (2006) P_II-regulated arginine synthesis controls accumulation of cyanophycin in Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803, Journal of Bacteriology, 188(7), pp. 2730-2734. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.188.7.2730-2734.2006

APA Citation style: Maheswaran, M., Ziegler, K., Lockau, W., Hagemann, M., & Forchhammer, K. (2006). P_II-regulated arginine synthesis controls accumulation of cyanophycin in Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(7), 2730-2734. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.188.7.2730-2734.2006