Mutational adaptation of Escherichia coli to glucose limitation involves distinct evolutionary pathways in aerobic and oxygen-limited environments

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-12

  Manché, Karen ^a   Notley McRobb, Lucinda ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CHEMOSTAT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AEROBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GALACTOSE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032877609     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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