Global gene expression patterns of Nostoc punctiforme in steady-state dinitrogen-grown heterocyst-containing cultures and at single time points during the differentiation of akinetes and hormogonia

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5247-5256

  Campbell, Elsie L ^a   Summers, Michael L ^b   Christman, Harry ^a   Martin, Miriam E ^a   Meeks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN; NOSTOC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 34447543003     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00360-07     Document Type: Article

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