Establishing a model to study the regulation of the lactose operon in Lactobacillus casei

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-89

  Gosalbes, María José ^a   Monedero, Vicente ^a   Alpert, Carl Alfred ^b   Pérez Martínez, Gaspar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

catabolite repression; Lactobacillus casei; lactose operon; transcriptional antitermination

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTOSE;

ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031105265     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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