Heterocyst differentiation and pattern formation in cyanobacteria: a chorus of signals

CC Zhang, S Laurent, S Sakr, L Peng…

Index: Liu, Xinjun; Wang, Yang; Laurini, Erik; Posocco, Paola; Chen, Han; Ziarelli, Fabio; Janicki, Annick; Qu, Fanqi; Fermeglia, Maurizio; Pricl, Sabrina; Zhang, Cheng-Cai; Peng, Ling Organic Letters, 2013 , vol. 15, # 18 p. 4662 - 4665

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Abstract

Summary Heterocyst differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria provides an excellent prokaryotic model for studying multicellular behaviour and pattern formation. In Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120, for example, 5–10% of the cells along each filament are induced, when