Catabolite repression and inducer control in Gram-positive bacteria

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-230

  Saier Jr , Milton H ^a   Chauvaux, Sylvie ^a   Cook, Gregory M ^a   Deutscher, Josef ^a   Paulsen, Ian T ^a   Reizer, Jonathan ^a   Ye, Jing Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon and energy metabolism; Inducer expulsion; Phosphotransferase system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PERMEASE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; SUGAR; SUGAR PHOSPHATE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROLYSIS; LACTOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030066305     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-2-217     Document Type: Review

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