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Spontaneous mutations in gas vesicle genes of Planktothrix spp. affect gas vesicle production and critical pressure.
FEMS microbiology letters - 8 Oct 2002
Beard Steven J, Handley Barbara A, Walsby Anthony E
Abstract excerpt
Wild-type strains of the cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens have a cluster of gas vesicle (gvp) genes with repeats of alternating gvpA and gvpC. The gvpC occurs in three length variants, all with the same 3'-sequence, OmegaC. Spontaneous non-buoyant mutants had lost some of the alternating gvpAC copies and their gvpC genes had a novel 3'-end sequence, PsiC; additional gvpC genes terminating in this sequence...
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