Isolation and characterisation of an aryl-β-D-glucoside uptake and utilisation system (abg) from the gram-positive ruminal Clostridium species C. longisporum

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 213-218

  Brown, G D ^a,b   Thomson, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aryl glucoside; Clostridium; PTS

Indexed keywords

ARYL BETA GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSIDE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARBUTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSIDES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RUMEN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM LONGISPORUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031885662     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050641     Document Type: Article

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