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ArticleWong, FrancisNostoc punctiforme is a phenotypically complex, filamentous, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, whose vegetative cells can mature in four developmental directions. The particular developmental direction is determined by environmental signals. The vegetat . . .
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ThesisTamaddoni, SassanThe cyanobacterium, Nostoc punctiforme is capable of differentiating into various cell types that allow adaptation and survival under various environmental threats. It has proven to be a unique model system for investigating genetic regulation leading . . .
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ThesisCalderon, CorinaNostoc punctiforme is a filamentous cyanobacterium with the ability to differentiate into three different cell types: nitrogen fixing heterocysts, motile hormogonia and spoke-like akinetes. Akinetes are able to survive a variety of harsh conditions su . . .
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ThesisPeramuna, AnanthaNostoc punctiforme is a member of the cyanobacteria that forms filaments of cells and is capable of forming lipid droplets in the cytoplasm. References to lipid droplets in cyanobacteria are scattered throughout the cyanobacterial literature, and are . . .
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ThesisJulfayan, AniOur efforts to characterize β-1,4-N-acetylglucosanimindase, also known as NagZ, in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme have revealed several unique phenotypes and reaffirmed previously established mechanisms. Enzyme assays show that nagZ hydrolyzes . . .
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ThesisArias, DaisyNostoc punctiforme is a filamentous cyanobacterium capable of producing cytoplasmic lipid droplets (LDs) that contain triacylglycerides, alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), and alkanes. Triacylglycerides are a feedstock for biodiesel, and alkanes found in N . . .
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ThesisGupta, DineshNon-renewable fossil fuels are responsible to meet more than 80% of global energy demand and its increasing price has ignited the interest in renewable biofuel production. 2-Methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBO) is a natural volatile 5-carbon alcoholic compound p . . .
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ThesisYazdani, ArashNostoc punctiforme is a filamentous cyanobacterium capable of differentiating its vegetative cells into spore-like akinetes that can withstand desiccation and cold. The NpR3597 gene was previously identified in a time-course DNA microarray experiment . . .
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ArticleRicci, J.N.Hopanes are abundant in ancient sedimentary rocks at discrete intervals in Earth history, yet interpreting their significance in the geologic record is complicated by our incomplete knowledge of what their progenitors, hopanoids, do in modern cells. T . . .
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ThesisAmir Ali, ArsalanNostoc punctiforme is a filamentous cyanobacterium that has an immense potential to be used as a platform to produce biofuels and other high-value compounds. Their ability to synthesize lipid droplets and other valuable metabolites while eliminating t . . .