Ectoine-induced proteins in Sinorhizobium meliloti include an ectoine ABC-type transporter involved in osmoprotection and ectoine catabolism

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1293-1304

  Jebbar, Mohamed ^a   Sohn Bösser, Linda ^b   Bremer, Erhard ^b   Bernard, Théophile ^a   Blanco, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BETAINE; ECTOINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROTECTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CODE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAINE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROTEOME; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 14544277498     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.4.1293-1304.2005     Document Type: Article

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