NblA is essential for phycobilisome degradation in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 but not for development of functional heterocysts

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2739-2749

  Baier, Kerstin ^a   Lehmann, Heike ^a   Stephan, Dirk Paul ^b   Lockau, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYCOBILISOME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STARVATION; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; UPREGULATION;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 4444219514     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27153-0     Document Type: Article

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