Novel phosphotransferase-encoding genes revealed by analysis of the Escherichia coli genome: A chimeric gene encoding an Enzyme I homologue that possesses a putative sensory transduction domain

Gene

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 103-108

  Reizer, Jonathan ^a   Reizer, Aiala ^a   Merrick, Mike J ^b   Plunkett III, Guy ^c   Rose, Debra J ^c   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

E. coli genome; Nitrogen assimilation; Phosphotransferase system; Protein phosphorylation; Sugar transport

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRICETINAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (NITROGENOUS GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030605252     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00481-7     Document Type: Article

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