Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are microbial communities that are a feature of arid surface
soils worldwide. In drylands where precipitation is pulsed and ephemeral, the ability of …

The cyanobacterial circadian oscillator, consisting of KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC proteins, drives
global rhythms of gene expression and compaction of the chromosome and regulates the …

A significant component of many different ecosystems, cyanobacteria occupy almost every
niche of the earth, including fresh and salt waters, rice fields, hot springs, arid deserts, and …

The heat shock protein HtpG is homologous to members of the Hsp90 protein family of
eukaryotes and is essential for basal and acquired thermotolerances in cyanobacteria. In …

Small, regulatory, non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is involved in various cell functions in both
prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, information on ncRNA in cyanobacteria is still scarce …

Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 cultured at 30° C losses viability quickly under chill (5°
C)-light stress but becomes highly tolerant to the stress after conditioning at 15° C (Y. Yang …

Most organisms have developed various strategies to react rapidly to temperature down-shift
and regulate expression of various genes to acclimate to low temperature. In photosynthetic …

The expression of the rbp genes, which encode small RNA-binding proteins with a single
RNA-recognition motif, is known to increase at low temperature in Anabaena variabilis M3 …

Biochemical responses to cold and osmotic stresses overlap because each decreases the
availability of free water. Since RNA-binding proteins are known to accumulate following …

In the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803, rbp3, a type-II RNA-binding protein gene, is
slightly induced by temperature downshift. An rbp3 mutant shows significant reduction in …