Nostoc punctiforme

P. Lindberg, K. Schiitz, T. Happe, P. Lindblad (2002) A hydrogen-producing, hydrogenase-free mutant strain of Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 27 1291-1296... 

Agrobacterium tumefaciens Brucella melitensis Burkholderia fungorum (2) Campylobacter jejuni Caulobacter crescentus Chlorobium tepidum Chloroflexus aurantiacus Deinococcus radiodurans Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum (2) Mesorhizobium loti (2) Methanosarcina acetivorans (2)b Methanosarcina mazei (2)b Mycobacterium tuberculosis Myxococcus xanthus Nostoc punctiforme (2)... 

Hanson, T. E., Forchhammer, K., Tandeau de Marsac, N., and Meeks, J. C. (1998). Characterization of the glnB gene product of Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133 glnB or the Pn protein may be essential. Microbiology. 144, 1537—11547. 

Two recent works using spectral microscopy have reported dependence of fluorescence spectrum on radial positions in cyanobacterial cells [20, 30], One is about variation between subunits of phycobilisomes in Nostoc punctiforme [20], the other is reporting that phycobilin-to-chlorophyll fluorescence ratio (phycobilin/chlorophyll) is higher along the periphery than inside the cells in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 [30], The latter phenomenon seems to be opposite to what we have found. How such different trends arise is interesting future subject to be addressed with the help of spectral microscopy. 

Wolf, E. and Schiifller, A. (2005) Phycobiliprotein fluorescence of Nostoc punctiforme changes during the life cycle and chromatic adaptation characterization by spectral confocal laser scanning microscopy and spectral unmixing. Plant, Cell Environ., 28, 480-491. 

Steiger S, Sandmann G (2004) Cloning of two carotenoid ketolase genes from Nostoc punctiforme for the heterogous production of canthaxanthin and astaxanthin. Biotechnol Lett 26 813-817... 

Takaichi S, Mochimaru M, Maoka T, Katoh H (2005) Myxol and 4-ketomyxol 2 -fucosides, not rhamnosides, from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 and Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102, and proposal for the biosynthetic pathway of carotenoids. Plant Cell Physiol 46 497-504... 

Hibi, M., Kawashima, T., Sokolov, P. M., Smirnov, S. V., Kodera, T., Sugiyama, M., Shimizu, S., Yokozeki, K., Ogawa, J. (2012). L-Leucine 5-hydroxylase of Nostoc punctiforme is a novel type of Fe(II)/a-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase that is useful as a biocatalyst. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 97,2467-2472. 

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