Characterization of the presumptive phosphorylation sites of the Bacillus subtilis glucose permease by site-directed mutagenesis: Implication in glucose transport and catabolite repression

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 233-238

  Bachem, Steffi ^a   Faires, Niki ^a   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Carbon catabolite repression; Glucose uptake; Mutagenesis; Protein phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYME ASSAY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031573040     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00430-8     Document Type: Article

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