Enzyme I and HPr from Lactobacillus casei: Their role in sugar transport, carbon catabolite repression and inducer exclusion

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 570-584

  Viana, Rosa ^a   Monedero, Vicente ^a,b   Dossonnet, Valérie ^b   Vadeboncoeur, Christian ^c   Pérez Martínez, Gaspar ^a   Deutscher, Josef ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALIN; ARBUTIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; CELLOBIOSE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; LACTOSE; MALTOSE; MANNITOL; MANNOSE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RIBOSE; SALICIN; SORBITOL; SORBOSE; TAGATOSE; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FERMENTATION; GENE INDUCTION; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (NITROGENOUS GROUP ACCEPTOR); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034100838     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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