Discovery of glpC, an organic solvent tolerance-related gene in Escherichia coli, using gene expression profiles from DNA microarrays

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1093-1096

  Shimizu, Kazunori ^a   Hayashi, Shuhei ^a   Kako, Takeshi ^a   Suzuki, Maiko ^a   Tsukagoshi, Norihiko ^b   Doukyu, Noriyuki ^b   Kobayashi, Takeshi ^a   Honda, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MEDICAL IMAGING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ANAEROBIC; ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; SIX GENES;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; ORGANIC SOLVENT;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL SURFACE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DELETION MUTANT; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURBIDITY;

CYCLOHEXANES; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLVENTS; XYLENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 13544256292     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.1093-1096.2005     Document Type: Article

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