The Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 asr1734 gene encodes a negative regulator of heterocyst development

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 782-794

  Wu, Xiaoqiang ^a   Lee, Dong W ^a   Mella, Rodrigo A ^a   Golden, James W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SULFUR;

ANABAENA SP.; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME;

EID: 34247465128     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05698.x     Document Type: Article

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