A major facilitator superfamily protein, HepP, is involved in formation of the heterocyst envelope polysaccharide in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 4677-4687

  López Igual, Rocío ^a,c   Lechno Yossef, Sigal ^b   Fan, Qing ^b,d   Herrero, Antonia ^a   Flores, Enrique ^a   Wolk, C Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEPP PROTEIN; NITROGENASE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84866332706     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00489-12     Document Type: Article

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