Lactobacillus plantarum ccl gene is non-essential, arginine-repressed and codes for a conserved protein in Firmicutes

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 307-316

  Arsène Ploetze, Florence ^a   Nicoloff, Hervé ^a,b   Bringel, Françoise ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine repression; COG4708; Firmicutes; Lactobacillus plantarum; Membrane protein; Pfam06177

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CISTRON; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYBRIDIZATION; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRULLINE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 23844536300     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0774-9     Document Type: Article

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