A chloride-inducible acid resistance mechanism in Lactococcus lactis and its regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 299-310

  Sanders, Jan Willem ^a   Leenhouts, Kees ^a   Burghoorn, Jan ^a   Brands, Jan Roel ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Kok, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; CHLORIDE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORIDES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0031984335     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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