The Q15H mutation enables Crh, a Bacillus subtilis HPr-like protein, to carry out some regulatory HPr functions, but does not make it an effective phosphocarrier for sugar transport

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3195-3204

  Martin Verstraete, Isabelle ^a   Galinier, Anne ^b   Darbon, Emmanuelle ^a   Quentin, Yves ^c   Kilhoffer, Marie Claude ^d   Charrier, Véronique ^b,e   Haiech, Jacques ^d   Rapoport, Georges ^a   Deutscher, Josef ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catabolite repression; Crh; Hpr; Pep:sugar phosphotransferase system

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; HISTIDINE; MANNITOL; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0032716772     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-11-3195     Document Type: Article

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