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Role for hetC in the transition to a nondividing state during heterocyst differentiation in Anabaena sp.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2001
Xu X, Wolk C P
Abstract excerpt
Nitrogen-deprived filaments of wild-type or hetC Anabaena sp. produce respectively, at semiregular intervals, heterocysts and weakly fluorescent cells. Unlike heterocysts, the latter cells can divide and elongate, producing a pattern of spaced series of small cells. Because a hetR::gfp fusion is...
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