The role of the trehalose system in regulating the maltose regulon of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 777-788

  Decker, Katja ^a   Gerhardt, Friederike ^a   Boos, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; MALTOSE; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; REPRESSOR GENE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISACCHARIDASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MALTOSE; MUTATION; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TREHALOSE;

EID: 0033047695     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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