Isolation and characterization of new thiamine-deregulated mutants of bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 8127-8136

  Schyns, Ghislain ^a,c   Potot, Sébastien ^a   Geng, Yi ^a,d   Barbosa, Teresa M ^b   Henriques, Adriano ^b   Perkins, John B ^a  

^a DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c Bldg 203/25A ^*  (Switzerland)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; COCARBOXYLASE; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PHOSPHATE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CISTRON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; THIC GENE; THIL GENE; YDIA GENE; YKOD GENE; YUAJ GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; THIAMIN PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 28044456709     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.23.8127-8136.2005     Document Type: Article

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