Signal transduction genes required for heterocyst maturation in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6688-6693

  Fan, Qing ^a,e   Lechno Yossef, Sigal ^a   Ehira, Shigeki ^b   Kaneko, Takakazu ^c   Ohmori, Masayuki ^b   Sato, Naoki ^d   Tabata, Satoshi ^c   Wolk, C Peter ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCOLIPID; NEOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL CELL; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOX GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HENR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GLYCOLIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANABAENA SP.;

EID: 33748765801     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01669-05     Document Type: Article

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