Urea uptake and urease activity in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 411-416

  Siewe, Ruth M ^a   Weil, Brita ^a   Burkovski, Andreas ^a   Eggeling, Lothar ^a   Krämer, Reinhard ^a,c   Jahns, Thomas ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium glutamicum; Secondary transport; Urea uptake; Urease activity

Indexed keywords

UREA; UREASE;

ARTICLE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DIFFUSION; DRUG UPTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; STARVATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBONYL CYANIDE M-CHLOROPHENYL HYDRAZONE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; HYDROXYUREA; IONOPHORES; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE; THIOUREA; UREA; UREASE; VALINOMYCIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031921371     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050591     Document Type: Article

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