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Programmed DNA Rearrangements in Cyanobacteria

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Bacterial Genomes

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Three developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements occur during hetero-cyst differentiation in the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 (Anabaena PCC 7120). All three rearrangements involve the excision of an element from the chromosome by site-specific recombination and each requires an element-encoded recombinase. Each element is harbored in a hetero-cyst-specific gene that is required for the production of a fully functional heterocyst. Precise excision of the elements is necessary to restore these genes. Elements similar to these Anabaena PCC 7120 elements have been found in a variety of heterocystous cyanobacterial strains.

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  1. DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824-1312, USA

    Frans J. de Bruijn

  2. Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Room 609E, Houston, TX, 77030-3498, USA

    James R. Lupski

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX, USA, 77030

    George M. Weinstock

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Golden, J.W. (1998). Programmed DNA Rearrangements in Cyanobacteria. In: de Bruijn, F.J., Lupski, J.R., Weinstock, G.M. (eds) Bacterial Genomes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6369-3_16

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