Description of five mutants of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 affected in heterocyst differentiation and identification of the transposon-tagged genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-213

  Maldener, Iris ^a   Hannus, Stefan ^a   Kammerer, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anabaena; Cyanobacterium; Heterocyst; luxAB; mutS2; Transposon

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; NITROGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE EXPORT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LUXAB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0042709306     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00444-0     Document Type: Article

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