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Stress Signalling in Cyanobacteria: A Mechanistic Overview
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: Received: 22 October 2020 / Approved: 23 October 2020 / Online: 23 October 2020 (12:26:14 CEST)
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Rachedi, R.; Foglino, M.; Latifi, A. Stress Signaling in Cyanobacteria: A Mechanistic Overview. Life 2020, 10, 312. Rachedi, R.; Foglino, M.; Latifi, A. Stress Signaling in Cyanobacteria: A Mechanistic Overview. Life 2020, 10, 312.
Abstract
Cyanobacteria are highly diverse, widely distributed photosynthetic bacteria inhabiting various environments ranging from deserts to the cryosphere. Throughout this range of niches, they have to cope with various stresses and kinds of deprivation which threaten their growth and viability. In order to adapt to these stresses and survive, they have developed several global adaptive responses which modulate the patterns of gene expression and the cellular functions at work. Sigma factors, two-component systems, transcriptional regulators and small regulatory RNAs acting either separately or collectively, for example, induce appropriate cyanobacterial stress responses. The aim of this review is to summarize our current knowledge about the diversity of the sensors and regulators involved in the perception and transduction of light, oxidative and thermal stresses and nutrient starvation responses. The studies discussed here point to the fact that various stresses affecting the photosynthetic capacity are transduced by common mechanisms.
Keywords
Cyanobacteria; Gene expression; Regulation; Signalling; Stress
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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