Expression of ptsG, the gene for the major glucose PTS transporter in Escherichia coli, is repressed by Mlc and induced by growth on glucose

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1053-1063

  Plumbridge, Jacqueline ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031866040     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00991.x     Document Type: Article

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