Identification of Nostoc punctiforme akinete-expressed genes using differential display

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 748-757

  Argueta, Claudia ^a   Yuksek, Kamile ^a   Patel, Ronak ^a   Summers, Michael L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMINOPEPTIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC PROTEASE ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; ORTHOLOGY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED MICROSATELLITE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NOSTOC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME;

EID: 33748291468     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05263.x     Document Type: Article

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