Assembly and export of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in cyanobacteria. A phylogenomic approach

Advances in Botanical Research

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 235-279

  Pereira, Sara B ^a   Mota, Rita ^a   Santos, Catarina L ^a   De Philippis, Roberto ^c   Tamagnini, Paula ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); Outer membrane polysaccharide export (OPX); Phylogeny; Polysaccharide copolymerase (PCP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871694175     PISSN: 00652296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394313-2.00007-X     Document Type: Chapter

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