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The Cyanobacterial Hepatotoxin Microcystin Binds to Proteins and Increases the Fitness of Microcystis under Oxidative Stress Conditions

Microcystins are cyanobacterial toxins that represent a serious threat to drinking water and recreational lakes worldwide. Here, we show that microcystin fulfils an important function within cells of its natural producer Microcystis. The microcystin deficient mutant ΔmcyB showed significant changes...

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Autores principales: Zilliges, Yvonne, Kehr, Jan-Christoph, Meissner, Sven, Ishida, Keishi, Mikkat, Stefan, Hagemann, Martin, Kaplan, Aaron, Börner, Thomas, Dittmann, Elke
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21445264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017615