Expanding the Role of FurA as Essential Global Regulator in Cyanobacteria.

In the nitrogen-fixing heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, the ferric uptake regulator FurA plays a global regulatory role. Failures to eliminate wild-type copies of furA gene from the polyploid genome suggest essential functions. In the present study, we developed a selectively...

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Main Authors: Andrés González, M Teresa Bes, M Luisa Peleato, María F Fillat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4788461?pdf=render