Biased inheritance of the protein PatN frees vegetative cells to initiate patterned heterocyst differentiation

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

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15342-15347

  Risser, Douglas D ^a   Wong, Francis C Y ^a,b   Meeks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Activator inhibitor; Pattern differentiation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HETZ; PROTEIN PATA; PROTEIN PATN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; HETEROCYST; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NOSTOC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME;

EID: 84866526724     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207530109     Document Type: Article

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