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Clustered genes required for synthesis and deposition of envelope glycolipids in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 2005
Fan Qing, Huang Guocun, Lechno-Yossef Sigal, Wolk C Peter, Kaneko Takakazu, Tabata Satoshi
Abstract excerpt
Photoreduction of dinitrogen by heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria is of great importance ecologically and for subsistence rice agriculture. Their heterocysts must have a glycolipid envelope layer that limits the entry of oxygen if nitrogenase is to remain active to fix dinitrogen in an oxygen-containing milieu (the Fox+ phenotype). Genes alr5354 (hglD), alr5355 (hglC) and alr5357 (hglB) of the filamentous...
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