Identification of an ATP-driven, osmoregulated glycine betaine transport system in Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4040-4048

  Ko, Rinkei ^a,b   Smith, Linda Tombras ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION TRANSPORT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; OSMOLARITY; PROMOTER REGION; START CODON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; OPUA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032828415     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4040-4048.1999     Document Type: Article

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