Mutational loss of a K+ and NH4+ transporter affects the growth and endospore formation of alkaliphilic bacillus pseudofirmus OF4

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 5133-5147

  Wei, Yi ^a   Southworth, Thomas W ^b   Kloster, Hilde ^a,d   Ito, Masahiro ^c   Guffanti, Arthur A ^a   Moir, Anne ^b   Krulwich, Terry A ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Smerud Medical Research International AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; ANTIPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN OF4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS PSEUDOFIRMUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PH; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMOSOME; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GERMINATION; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA; ANTIPORTERS; BACILLUS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POTASSIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS PSEUDOFIRMUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0041387474     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5133-5147.2003     Document Type: Article

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