Metabolic defects caused by mutations in the isc gene cluster in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium: Implications for thiamine synthesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3896-3903

  Skovran, Elizabeth ^a   Downs, Diana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CULTURE MEDIA; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; IRON; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NIACIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PYRUVIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPING; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; THIAMINE; THIAZOLES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0033942998     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.14.3896-3903.2000     Document Type: Article

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