pbpB, a gene coding for a putative penicillin-binding protein, is required for aerobic nitrogen fixation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC7120

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 628-636

  Lazaro S ^a   Fernandez Pinas F ^a   Fernandez Valiente E ^a   Blanco Rivero, A ^a   Leganes F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

AEROBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0035155804     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.2.628-636.2001     Document Type: Article

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