Excision of the nifD element in the heterocystous cyanobacteria

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-366

  Henson, B J ^a   Pennington, L E ^b   Watson, L E ^b   Barnum, S R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmentally regulated DNA rearrangement; nifD Element; Site specific recombination; xisA

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NIFD GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XISA GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITROGENASE; NOSTOC; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 43349098421     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-007-0326-6     Document Type: Article

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