Spontaneous mutations in gas vesicle genes of Planktothrix spp. affect gas vesicle production and critical pressure

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 189-195

  Beard, Steven J ^a   Handley, Barbara A ^a   Walsby, Anthony E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buoyancy loss; Cyanobacterium; Gas vesicle; gvpC; Planktothrix rubescens

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN GVPAC; PROTEIN GVPC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GAS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; GASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PRESSURE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VACUOLES;

PLANKTOTHRIX; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 0037044470     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00956-4     Document Type: Article

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