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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Nostoc sp. PCC 7120
SUBMITTER: James Golden
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-26633 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Flaherty Britt L BL Van Nieuwerburgh F F Head Steven R SR Golden James W JW
BMC genomics 20110628
<h4>Background</h4>Cyanobacteria are potential sources of renewable chemicals and biofuels and serve as model organisms for bacterial photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and responses to environmental changes. Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. strain PCC 7120 (hereafter Anabaena) is a multicellular filamentous cyanobacterium that can "fix" atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia when grown in the absence of a source of combined nitrogen. Because the nitrogenase enzyme is oxygen sensitive, Anabaena forms specialize ...[more]