Publication Date:
1992-06-19
Description:
Myoglobin was found in the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc commune. This cyanobacterial myoglobin, referred to as cyanoglobin, was shown to be a soluble hemoprotein of 12.5 kilodaltons with an amino acid sequence that is related to that of myoglobins from two lower eukaryotes, the ciliated protozoa Paramecium caudatum and Tetrahymena pyriformis. Cyanoglobin is encoded by the glbN gene, which is positioned between nifU and nifH-two genes essential for nitrogen fixation-in the genome of Nostoc. Cyanoglobin was detected in Nostoc cells only when they were starved for nitrogen and incubated microaerobically.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Potts, M -- Angeloni, S V -- Ebel, R E -- Bassam, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Jun 19;256(5064):1690-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Va 24061.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1609281" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Chromosome Mapping
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Cloning, Molecular
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Cyanobacteria/*genetics
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Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Myoglobin/*genetics
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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