Inactivation of patS and hetN causes lethal levels of heterocyst differentiation in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-123

  Borthakur, Pritty B ^a   Orozco, Christine C ^a,c   Young Robbins, Shirley S ^a   Haselkorn, Robert ^b   Callahan, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANABAENA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETN GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATS GENE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, LETHAL; MICROFILAMENTS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES;

NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 21244481366     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04678.x     Document Type: Article

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