Transcriptional analysis of the xylose ABC transport operons in the thermophilic anaerobe Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-62

  Jones, Chris R ^a,b   Ray, Myrna ^a   Strobel, Herbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE; XYLOSE BINDING PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; XYLE PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERNOANAEROBACTER ETHANOLICUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XYLF GENE; XYLH GENE; XYLOSE TRANSPORT PERMEASE GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTER ETHANOLICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS RODS, IRREGULAR; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEAT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SYMPORTERS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XYLOSE;

EID: 0036634186     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0099-0     Document Type: Article

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