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. 1988 Jul;170(7):3297–3300. doi: 10.1128/jb.170.7.3297-3300.1988

Cloning of nifHD from Nostoc commune UTEX 584 and of a flanking region homologous to part of the Azotobacter vinelandii nifU gene.

N Defrancesco 1, M Potts 1
PMCID: PMC211287  PMID: 3133363

Abstract

The heterocystous cyanobacterium Nostoc commune UTEX 584 contains two nifH-like sequences (nifH1 and nifH2) in addition to nifHD. A region of DNA 1 kilobase upstream from the 5' end of nifH showed considerable sequence similarity to part of the published nifU sequences of Azotobacter vinelandii and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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