The nucleoside-specific Tsx channel from the outer membrane of Salmonella typhimurium, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter aerogenes: Functional characterization and DNA sequence analysis of the tsx genes

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 603-615

  Nieweg, Annette ^a,c   Bremer, Erhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Albicidin; Bacteriophages; Colicins; Membrane proteins; Transport

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; GENETIC PROCEDURES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031056081     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-2-603     Document Type: Article

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