NrrA, a nitrogen-responsive response regulator facilitates heterocyst development in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1692-1703

  Ehira, Shigeki ^a   Ohmori, Masayuki ^a,b  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NRRA PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA BINDING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETR GENE; NITROGEN DEFICIENCY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANABAENA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 33645470649     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05049.x     Document Type: Article

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