The bacterium Thermus thermophilus, like hyperthermophilic archaea, uses a two-step pathway for the synthesis of mannosylglycerate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3272-3279

  Empadinhas, Nuno ^a   Albuquerque, Luciana ^a   Henne, Anke ^c   Santos, Helena ^b   Da Costa, Milton S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; PH EFFECTS; PROTEINS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALPHA MANNOSYL 3 PHOSPHOGLYCERATE; ALPHA MANNOSYLGLYCERATE; COBALT; FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; GLYCERIC ACID; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MANNOSYL 3 PHOSPHOGLYCERATE PHOSPHATASE; MANNOSYL 3 PHOSPHOGLYCERATE SYNTHASE; MANNOSYLGLYCERATE; PHOSPHATASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PYROCOCCUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0038655499     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3272-3279.2003     Document Type: Article

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