Journal article

Publication year: 2004

Pages: 319-333

Journal: FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volume number: 28

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0168-6445

eISSN: 1574-6976

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2003.11.001

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract: 
P-II signal transduction plays a pervasive role in microbial nitrogen control. Different phylogenetic lineages have developed various signal transduction schemes around the highly conserved core of the signalling system, which consists of the P-II proteins. Among all various bacterial PI, signalling systems, the one in cyanobacteria is so far unique: in unicellular strains, the mode of covalent modification is by serine phosphorylation and the interpretation of the cellular nitrogen status occurs by measuring the 2-oxoglutarate levels. Recent advances have been the identification of the phospho-P-II phosphatase, the resolution of the crystal structure of PI, proteins from Synechococcus and Synechocystis strains and the identification of novel functions of P-II regulation in cyanobacteria, which highlight the central role of P-II signalling for the acclimation to changing carbon-nitrogen regimes. (C) 2003 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Forchhammer, K. (2004) Global carbon/nitrogen control by P_II signal transduction in cyanobacteria:: from signals to targets, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 28(3), pp. 319-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2003.11.001

APA Citation style: Forchhammer, K. (2004). Global carbon/nitrogen control by P_II signal transduction in cyanobacteria:: from signals to targets. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 28(3), 319-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsre.2003.11.001