A novel protein kinase that controls carbon catabolite repression in bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1157-1169

  Reizer, Jonathan ^a   Hoischen, Christian ^a,d   Titgemeyer, Friedrich ^b   Rivolta, Carlo ^c   Rabus, Ralf ^a   Stülke, Jörg ^b   Karamata, Dimitri ^c   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Microbiennes Universite de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^d FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; CARRIER PROTEIN; FRUCTOSE 1,6 BISPHOSPHATE; GENE PRODUCT; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUCTOSEDIPHOSPHATES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031909392     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00747.x     Document Type: Article

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