From famine to feast: The role of methylglyoxal production in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 553-562

  Totemeyer S ^a   Booth, N A ^a   Nichols, W W ^b   Dunbar, B ^a   Booth, I R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLGLYOXAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC REGULATION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOSPHATES; PLASMIDS; PYRUVALDEHYDE; XYLOSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031983922     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00700.x     Document Type: Article

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