N and C control of ABC-type bicarbonate transporter Cmp and its LysR-type transcriptional regulator CmpR in a heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium, Anabaena sp.

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1035-1048

  López Igual, Rocío ^a   Picossi, Silvia ^a   López Garrido, Javier ^a   Flores, Enrique ^a   Herrero, Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BICARBONATE; CARBON; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANABAENA; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BICARBONATES; CARBON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

EID: 84859424978     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02683.x     Document Type: Article

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