FraG is necessary for filament integrity and heterocyst maturation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 601-607

  Nayar, Asha S ^a   Yamaura, Hiroshi ^a   Rajagopalan, Ramya ^a   Risser, Douglas D ^a   Callahan, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FRAG PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOLIPID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HETR PROTEIN; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; LIPOGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; MUTATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ANABAENA SP.;

EID: 33847204052     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/002535-0     Document Type: Article

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