A physical and functional analysis of the newly-identified bglGPT operon of Lactobacillus plantarum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-273

  Marasco, Rosangela ^a   Salatiello, Immacolata ^b   De Felice, Maurilio ^c   Sacco, Margherita ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^c Dipto Fisiol Gen Ed A   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glucosidase; bglGPT operon; Carbon catabolite repression; Lactobacillus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RIBOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM;

EID: 0034607640     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00153-1     Document Type: Article

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