Inorganic carbon acquisition systems in cyanobacteria

Teruo Ogawa; Aaron Kaplan

doi:10.1023/A:1025865500026

Inorganic carbon acquisition systems in cyanobacteria

Photosynth Res. 2003;77(2-3):105-15. doi: 10.1023/A:1025865500026.

Authors

Teruo Ogawa¹, Aaron Kaplan

Affiliation

¹ Bioscience Center, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan, ogawater@xd6.so-net.ne.jp.

PMID: 16228369
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025865500026

Abstract

This minireview focuses on the mechanism of inorganic carbon uptake in cyanobacteria and in particular the two CO(2)-uptake systems and two bicarbonate transporters recently identified in Synechocycstis PCC 6803, and their presence in other cyanobacterial strains.