The presence and expression of hetR in the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Symploca PCC 8002

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-179

  Janson, Sven ^a   Matveyev, Andrey ^b   Bergman, Birgitta ^c  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hetR; Leptolyngbya; nifH; Nitrogen fixation; Symploca; Trichodesmium

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE;

ACETYLENE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CULTURE MEDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CYANOBACTERIA; LEPTOLYNGBYA; LEPTOLYNGBYA SP. PCC 73110; SYMPLOCA; SYMPLOCA SP. PCC 8002; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 0031760955     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00435-2     Document Type: Article

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