Transcription activation by NtcA and 2-oxoglutarate of three genes involved in heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6126-6133

  Valladares, Ana ^a   Flores, Enrique ^a   Herrero, Antonia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b CSIC JA USE Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas Isla de la Cartuja CICIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; NTCA PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DEVB GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; HETC GENE; HETEROCYST; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NRRA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 51549091583     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00787-08     Document Type: Article

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