Gene replacement of adenylate kinase in the gram-positive thermophile Geobacillus stearothermophilus disrupts adenine nucleotide homeostasis and reduces cell viability

Extremophiles

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-144

  Couñago, Rafael ^a,b   Shamoo, Yousif ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b W M Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ADENYLATE KINASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RIFAMYCIN; SECY PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACILLACEAE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; RIBOSOME; TEMPERATURE;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; ADENYLATE KINASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLACEAE; BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITES; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIBOSOMES; RIFAMYCINS; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 18644363720     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-004-0428-x     Document Type: Article

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