Suppression of heterocyst differentiation in Anabaena PCC 7120 by a cosmid carrying wild-type genes encoding enzymes for fatty acid synthesis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-30

  Bauer, C C ^a   Ramaswamy, K S ^b   Endley, S ^b   Scappino, L A ^a   Golden, J W ^b   Haselkorn, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anabaena PCC 7120; Heterocyst differentiation; hetN

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COSMID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COSMIDS; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANABAENA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 0030805122     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00128-6     Document Type: Article

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