Constitutive expression of a small heat‐shock protein confers cellular thermotolerance and thermal protection to the photosynthetic apparatus in cyanobacteria
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- 20 October 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 483 (2-3) , 169-174
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(00)02097-4
Abstract
The role of a small heat‐shock protein (Hsp) in the acquisition of thermotolerance in cyanobacteria was investigated. Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 was transformed with an expression vector carrying the...Keywords
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