A mutant of the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 lacking cyanophycin synthetase: Growth properties and ultrastructural aspects

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-18

  Ziegler, Karl ^a   Stephan, Dirk P ^b   Pistorius, Elfriede K ^b   Ruppel, Hans G ^b   Lockau, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413; Cyanophycin; Cyanophycin synthetase; Dinitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYANOPHICIN; CYANOPHICIN SYNTHETASE; NITROGEN; RECOMBINANT DNA; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANABAENA; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AEROBIOSIS; ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PLANT PROTEINS;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA VARIABILIS ATCC 29413;

EID: 0035282310     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00027-1     Document Type: Article

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