Toxic and non-toxic strains of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa contain sequences homologous to peptide synthetase genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 295-303

  Meißner, Kathrin ^a   Dittmann, Elke ^a   Börner, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Microcysti; Microcystis aeruginosa; Peptide synthetase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0002741237     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00469-6     Document Type: Article

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