Overproduction of a foreign membrane protein in Escherichia coli stimulates and depends on phospholipid synthesis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 691-696

  Nieboer, Maarten ^a   Vis, Albert Jon ^b   Witholt, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Dept of Biochemistry ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyclic fatty acid; Membrane protein; Overexpression; Phospholipid synthesis

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS;

ALKANE 1-MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS;

EID: 0029908456     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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