Overproduction of the Flv3B flavodiiron, enhances the photobiological hydrogen production by the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc PCC 7120

Table 3 List of the bacterial strains and the plasmids used in this study

Strain name	Description/antibiotic resistance	Origin
Wild type	Nostoc/Anabaena PCC 7120 wild type strain	Pasteur Cyanobacterial Collection
WT/patB-flv3B	Nostoc containing the pRL25T-patB-flv3B plasmid/(Neo^R)	This study
ΔhupL	Nostoc deletion mutant of the hupL gene (Sp/Sm^R)/	This study
ΔhupL/patB-flv3B	ΔhupL mutant containing the pRL25T-patB-flv3B/(Sp/Sm^R and Neo^R)	This study

Plasmid name	Description/antibiotic resistance	Origin
pRL25T	Replication vector derived from the pRL25C cosmid (Neo^R)	[26, 30]
pRL25T-patB-flv3B	pRL25T harboring the flv3B gene under the control of the patB promoter (Neo^R)	This study

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