The multicellular nature of filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria

A Herrero, J Stavans, E Flores - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, play a key role in the cycling of carbon
and nitrogen in the biosphere, and have had a large impact on the evolution of life and the …

[HTML][HTML] Co-existence of photosynthetic and respiratory activities in cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes

CW Mullineaux - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2014 - Elsevier
The thylakoid membranes of cyanobacteria are the major sites of respiratory electron
transport as well as photosynthetic light reactions. The photosynthetic and respiratory …

Methodological underestimation of oceanic nitrogen fixation rates

W Mohr, T Grosskopf, DWR Wallace, J LaRoche - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The two commonly applied methods to assess dinitrogen (N2) fixation rates are the 15N2-
tracer addition and the acetylene reduction assay (ARA). Discrepancies between the two …

Genetic responses to carbon and nitrogen availability in Anabaena

A Herrero, E Flores - Environmental microbiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heterocyst‐forming cyanobacteria are filamentous organisms that perform oxygenic
photosynthesis and CO2 fixation in vegetative cells and nitrogen fixation in heterocysts …

Transcriptional regulation of development in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria

E Flores, S Picossi, A Valladares, A Herrero - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2019 - Elsevier
Filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are among the simplest multicellular systems
in Nature. In the absence of combined nitrogen, the filaments consist of vegetative cells that …

Mechanism of intercellular molecular exchange in heterocyst‐forming cyanobacteria

CW Mullineaux, V Mariscal, A Nenninger… - The EMBO …, 2008 - embopress.org
Heterocyst‐forming filamentous cyanobacteria are true multicellular prokaryotes, in which
heterocysts and vegetative cells have complementary metabolism and are mutually …

Differential Transcriptional Analysis of the Cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. Strain ATCC 51142 during Light-Dark and Continuous-Light Growth

J Toepel, E Welsh, TC Summerfield… - Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
We analyzed the metabolic rhythms and differential gene expression in the unicellular,
diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142 under N2-fixing conditions …

mRNA localization and thylakoid protein biogenesis in the filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

K Wang, M Mahbub, G Mastroianni… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria such as Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. PCC 7120 exhibit
extensive remodeling of their thylakoid membranes during heterocyst differentiation. Here …

Mechanisms for generating low potential electrons across the metabolic diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria

AB Alleman, JW Peters - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The availability of fixed nitrogen is a limiting factor in the net primary production of all
ecosystems. Diazotrophs overcome this limit through the conversion of atmospheric …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of light energy to H2 energy conversion efficiency in thin films of cyanobacteria and green alga under photoautotrophic conditions

S Kosourov, G Murukesan, M Seibert, Y Allahverdiyeva - Algal research, 2017 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria and green algae harness solar energy to split water and to fix CO 2. Under
specific conditions, they are capable of photoproduction of molecular hydrogen (H 2). This …