Identification of an anaerobically induced phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent fructose-specific phosphotransferase system and evidence for the Embden-Meyerhof glycolytic pathway in the heterofermentative bacterium Lactobacillus brevis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 314-316

  Saier Jr , Milton H ^a   Ye, Jing Jing ^a   Klinke, Stefan ^a   Nino, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GLYCOLYTIC ENZYME; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030059641     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.1.314-316.1996     Document Type: Article

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