Cell wall amidase amic1 is required for cellular communication and heterocyst development in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 but not for filament integrity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 5218-5227

  Berendt, Susanne ^a   Lehner, Josef ^a   Zhang, Yao Vincent ^b   Rasse, Tobias M ^b   Forchhammer, Karl ^a   Maldener, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM ANABAENA; CYST (RESTING STAGE); ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROCYST; HYDROLYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANABAENA; ANIMALS; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME PCC 73102; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; NOSTOCALES;

EID: 84868323046     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00912-12     Document Type: Article

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