• Summary: The regulation of nitrogenase derepression, plus the catalytic activity and protein concentration of glutamine synthetase (GS), nitrate reductase (NR), ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and phycoerythrin (PE) were studied in the filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Plectonema boryanum PCC 73110. (microbiologyresearch.org)