Staphylococcal phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system - two highly similar glucose permeases in Staphylococcus carnosus with different glucoside specificity: Protein engineering in vivo?

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2881-2889

  Christiansen, Ingo ^a,b   Hengstenberg, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glucose specific phosphotransferase system; Kinetics; Membrane protein; Regulation; Staphylococcus carnosus

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUCOSIDE; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SALICIN;

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS;

EID: 0032875349     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-10-2881     Document Type: Article

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