Mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase (MtlD) is required for mannitol and glucitol assimilation in Bacillus subtilis: Possible cooperation of mtl and gut operons

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4816-4824

  Watanabe, Shouji ^a   Hamano, Miyuki ^a   Kakeshita, Hiroshi ^a   Bunai, Keigo ^a   Tojo, Shigeo ^b   Yamaguchi, Hirotake ^b   Fujita, Yasutaro ^b   Wong, Sui Lam ^c   Yamane, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOSE; ISOPROPYL BETA THIOGALACTOSIDE; MANNITOL; MANNITOL 1 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MANNITOL DEHYDROGENASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GUT; PROTEIN GUTB; PROTEIN GUTP; PROTEIN GUTR; PROTEIN MTL; SORBITOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MANNITOL; MUTATION; OPERON; SORBITOL; SUGAR ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0043062670     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.16.4816-4824.2003     Document Type: Article

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