Metabolic block at early stages of the glycolytic pathway activates the Rcs phosphorelay system via increased synthesis of dTDP-glucose in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1117-1128

  El Kazzaz, Waleed ^a   Morita, Teppel ^a   Tagami, Hideaki ^a   Inada, Toshifumi ^a   Aiba, Hiroji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; THYMIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOLYSIS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1442300825     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03888.x     Document Type: Article

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