Identification of a phosphofructokinase-encoding gene from Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ1205 - A novel link between carbon metabolism and gene regulation?

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 500-509

  Crispie, F ^a   Anba, J ^b   Renault, P ^b   Ehrlich, D ^b   Fitzgerald, G ^a   Van Sinderen, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Lab de Genet Microbienne   (France)

Author keywords

Cross regulation; Glycolysis; Lactic acid bacteria; Phosphorylation; Two component system

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; BACTERIAL DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PFKT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON; CHROMOSOMES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASES; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0036458313     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0766-2     Document Type: Article

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