Dependency of sugar transport and phosphorylation by the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system on membranous phosphatidyl glycerol in Escherichia coli: Studies with a pgsA mutant lacking phosphatidyl glycerophosphate synthase

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 667-677

  Aboulwafa, Mohammad ^a,b   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Lipid; Phosphatidyl glycerol cardiolipin; Phosphotransferase system; Sugar transport

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE; MANNITOL; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SUGAR; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CDP DIACYLGLYCEROL GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE; CDP-DIACYLGLYCEROL-GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE 3-PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE FRUCTOSE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE GLUCOSE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE-FRUCTOSE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE-GLUCOSE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CYTOPLASM; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROLS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

EID: 0036897791     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(02)01376-1     Document Type: Article

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