Identification of the active site of HetR protease and its requirement for heterocyst differentiation in the Cyanobacterium anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1575-1579

  Dong, Yuqing ^a   Huang, Xu ^a   Wu, Xiang Yu ^a   Zhao, Jindong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DANSYL COMPOUNDS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SERINE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034090277     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.6.1575-1579.2000     Document Type: Article

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