Cluster of genes that encode positive and negative elements influencing filament length in a heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 3957-3966

  Merino Puerto, Victoria ^a   Herrero, Antonia ^a   Flores, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; FRAF PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HETL PROTEIN; HGLK PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PATL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NTCA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA STRAND; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANABAENA; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883533219     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00181-13     Document Type: Article

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