A mutation in the corynebacterium glutamicum ltsA gene causes susceptibility to lysozyme, temperature-sensitive growth, and L-glutamate production

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2696-2701

  Hirasawa, Takashi ^a   Wachi, Masaaki ^a   Nagai, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSOZYME; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ASPARTATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; MUTAGENESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034102455     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.10.2696-2701.2000     Document Type: Article

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