Accumulation of carotenoids in structural and regulatory mutants of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.

doi:10.1007/BF00265055

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Accumulation of carotenoids in structural and regulatory mutants of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Sept 1990

Martínez-Laborda A, Balsalobre J M, Fontes M, Murillo F J

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Accumulation of carotenoids in Myxococcus xanthus is absolutely dependent on illumination with blue light. We report the analysis of the carotenoids of dark- and light-grown cultures of the wild type and several previously characterized mutants. A carR mutant produces the same carotenoids in the...

Topics

Carotenoids
Genes, Bacterial
Genes, Regulator
Mutation
Myxococcales
Oxidoreductases
Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet

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