The mosaic structure of the mcyABC operon in Microcystis

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1886-1899

  Tooming Klunderud, Ave ^a   Mikalsen, Bjøorg ^a,b   Kristensen, Tom ^a   Jakobsen, Kjetill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICROCYSTIN;

ADENYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHYLATION; MICROCYSTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 51149083011     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/015875-0     Document Type: Article

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