Cyanobacteria produce a high variety of hepatotoxic peptides in lichen symbiosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5886-5891

  Kaasalainen, Ulla ^a   Fewer, David P ^a   Jokela, Jouni ^a   Wahlsten, Matti ^a   Sivonen, Kaarina ^a   Rikkinen, Jouko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chemical defence; Cyanolichen; Nostoc; Peltigera; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

MICROCYSTIN; TOXIN;

ALGAL BLOOM; ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LICHENS; LIVER TOXICITY; NODULARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LICHENS; LIVER; MARINE TOXINS; MICROCYSTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYLOGENY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; NODULARIA; NOSTOC; PELTIGERA;

EID: 84859608356     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200279109     Document Type: Article

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