The DevBCA exporter is essential for envelope formation in heterocysts of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1193-1202

  Fiedler, Gabriele ^b   Arnold, Matthias ^b   Hannus, Stefan ^a,b   Maldener, Iris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; GLYCOLIPID; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CYANOBACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GLYCOLIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031932396     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00762.x     Document Type: Article

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