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Functional dissection of the three-domain SepJ protein joining the cells in cyanobacterial trichomes.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 2011
Mariscal Vicente, Herrero Antonia, Nenninger Anja, Mullineaux Conrad W, Flores Enrique
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Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria grow as filaments of cells (trichomes) in which, under nitrogen limitation, two interdependent cell types, the vegetative cells performing oxygenic photosynthesis and the nitrogen-fixing heterocysts, exchange metabolites and regulatory compounds. SepJ is a protein conspicuously located at the cell poles in the intercellular septa of the filaments that has three well-defined...
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