Identification of a gene in Staphylococcus xylosus encoding a novel glucose uptake protein

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 4929-4936

  Fiegler, Heike ^a,b   Bassias, Joannis ^a,c   Jankovic, Ivana ^a   Brückner, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSON;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

EID: 0032816697     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.16.4929-4936.1999     Document Type: Article

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