Glycerol-3-phosphate transport in Haemophilus influenzae: Cloning, sequencing, and transcription analysis of the glp T gene

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 381-388

  Song, Xin Ming ^a   Forsgren, Arne ^a   Janson, Håkan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fosfomycin resistance; G3P uptake; glp regulon; glpT mutant; Selective medium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032581499     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00259-5     Document Type: Article

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