Fructose utilization in Lactococcus lactis as a model for low-GC gram-positive bacteria: Its regulator, signal, and DNA-binding site

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3752-3761

  Barrière, Charlotte ^a   Veiga da Cunha, Maria ^b   Pons, Nicolas ^a   Guédon, Eric ^a   Van Hijum, Sacha A F T ^c   Kok, Jan ^c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^c   Ehrlich, Dusko S ^a   Renault, Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CEPA GENE; DEOR GENE; DNA BINDING; ENERGY RESOURCE; FRUR GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRUCTOSE; FRUCTOSEPHOSPHATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 18944388400     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.11.3752-3761.2005     Document Type: Article

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