Article
Heterocyst pattern formation controlled by a diffusible peptide.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 30 Oct 1998
Yoon H S, Golden J W
Abstract excerpt
Many filamentous cyanobacteria grow as multicellular organisms that show a developmental pattern of single nitrogen-fixing heterocysts separated by approximately 10 vegetative cells. Overexpression of a 54-base-pair gene, patS, blocked heterocyst differentiation in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. A...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anabaena
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Cosmids
- Culture Media
- Diffusion
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, Reporter
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation, Missense
- Nitrates
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Oligopeptides
- Peptide Fragments
- Phenotype
- Promoter Regions, Genetic