Functional dissection of the three-domain SepJ protein joining the cells in cyanobacterial trichomes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1077-1088

  Mariscal, Vicente ^a   Herrero, Antonia ^a   Nenninger, Anja ^b   Mullineaux, Conrad W ^b   Flores, Enrique ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SEPJ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL COILED COIL DOMAIN; ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL PERMEASE DOMAIN; CELL ANCHORAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL LINKER DOMAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DELETION MUTANT; DIAZOTROPHIC GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FILAMENT INTERGRITY; HETEROCYST DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 79551680253     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07508.x     Document Type: Article

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