n-Hexane sensitivity of Escherichia coli due to low expression of imp/ ostA encoding an 87 kDa minor protein associated with the outer membrane

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1265-1273

  Abe, Shigeo ^a   Okutsu, Tomohisa ^a   Nakajima, Harushi ^a   Kakuda, Nobuto ^a   Ohtsu, Iwao ^a   Aono, Rikizo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHENYL ETHER; GENE PRODUCT; HEXANE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN IMP; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEXANES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLVENTS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037516675     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25927-0     Document Type: Review

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