Utilization of creatinine as an alternative nitrogen source in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 443-450

  Bendt, Anne K ^a   Beckers, Gabriele ^a   Silberbach, Maike ^a   Wittmann, Anja ^a   Burkovski, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium; Creatine; Creatinine deaminase; Creatinine uptake; Nitrogen control; Nitrogen regulation

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; DEAMINASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITROGEN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GENE EXPRESSION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINOHYDROLASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CREATININE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 3142622769     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-004-0679-z     Document Type: Article

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