heterocyst differentiation

Known as: heterocyst biosynthesis, heterocyst cell differentiation, heterocyst formation 
The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a heterocyst, a differentiated cell in certain cyanobacteria… (More)
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Heterocyst differentiation and pattern formation in cyanobacteria: a chorus of signals.
Heterocyst differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria provides an excellent prokaryotic model for studying multicellular… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
HetR homodimer is a DNA-binding protein required for heterocyst differentiation, and the DNA-binding activity is inhibited by PatS.
HetR plays a key role in regulation of heterocyst differentiation. When the Cys-48 residue of the HetR from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mutual dependence of the expression of the cell differentiation regulatory protein HetR and the global nitrogen regulator NtcA during heterocyst development.
Heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 depends on both the global nitrogen regulator NtcA… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Expression of the Anabaena hetR gene from a copper-regulated promoter leads to heterocyst differentiation under repressing conditions.
Heterocyst differentiation in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 requires a functional hetR gene. Increased… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
PatS and products of nitrogen fixation control heterocyst pattern.
The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 forms a developmental pattern of single heterocysts separated by… (More)
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Review
2000
Review
2000
Heterocyst formation in cyanobacteria.
When deprived of combined nitrogen, many filamentous cyanobacteria develop a one-dimensional pattern of specialised nitrogen… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Heterocyst pattern formation controlled by a diffusible peptide.
Many filamentous cyanobacteria grow as multicellular organisms that show a developmental pattern of single nitrogen-fixing… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Characterization of a gene controlling heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120.
Anabaena 7120 mutant 216 fails to differentiate heterocyst. We previously identified a 2.4-kb wild-type DNA fragment able to… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Independent regulation of nifHDK operon transcription and DNA rearrangement during heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120.
The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 expresses the genes required for nitrogen fixation in terminally… (More)
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Rearrangement of nitrogen fixation genes during heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena
Nitrogen fixation by the cyanobacterium Anabaena is carried out in heterocysts, specialized, non-dividing cells which… (More)
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