Publication Date:
2005-03-12
Description:
Ulva and Enteromorpha are cosmopolitan and familiar marine algal genera. It is well known that these green macroalgae lose their natural morphology during short-term cultivation under aseptic conditions and during long-term cultivation in nutrient-added seawater and adopt an unusual form instead. These phenomena led to the belief that undefined morphogenetic factors that were indispensable to the foliaceous morphology of macroalgae exist throughout the oceans. We characterize a causative factor, named thallusin, isolated from an epiphytic marine bacterium. Thallusin induces normal germination and morphogenesis of green macroalgae.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Matsuo, Yoshihide -- Imagawa, Hiroshi -- Nishizawa, Mugio -- Shizuri, Yoshikazu -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Mar 11;307(5715):1598.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Marine Biotechnology Institute Co. Ltd., 3-75-1 Heita, Kamaishi-shi, Iwate 026-0001, Japan. yoshihide.matsuo@mbio.jp〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15761147" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bacteroidetes/*chemistry
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Cell Differentiation
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Chlorophyta/*cytology/growth & development
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Morphogenesis
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Pyridines/chemistry/*isolation & purification/*pharmacology
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Ulva/cytology/growth & development
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
