Dependency of sugar transport and phosphorylation by the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system on membranous phosphatidylethanolamine in Escherichia coli: Studies with a pssA mutant lacking phosphatidylserine synthase

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-34

  Aboulwafa, Mohammad ^a,b   Hvorup, Rikki ^a,c   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Membrane lipid composition, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol; Phosphatidylserine synthase mutant; Phosphotransferase system; Transport

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DETERGENT; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ENZYME; GLUCOSE ENZYME II; LIPID; MANNITOL ENZYME II; MANNOSE ENZYME II; PERMEASE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SUGAR; TRITON X 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPOSURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; SUGAR TRANSPORT; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CDPDIACYLGLYCEROL-SERINE O-PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE; CELL MEMBRANE; DETERGENTS; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROLS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0742321722     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-003-0623-7     Document Type: Article

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