Transcriptional activation of the glycolytic las operon and catabolite repression of the gal operon in Lactococcus lactis are mediated by the catabolite control protein CcpA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 789-798

  Luesink, Evert J ^a   Van Herpen, René E M A ^a   Grossiord, Benoît P ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FRUCTOSE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; FERMENTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLYSIS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PYRUVATE KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031735564     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01111.x     Document Type: Article

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