Identification and disruption of BetL, a secondary glycine betaine transport system linked to the salt tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes LO28

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2078-2083

  Sleator, Roy D ^a   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a   Abee, Tjakko ^b   Hill, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BETL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032900489     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.2078-2083.1999     Document Type: Article

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