A cold-sensitive Listeria monocytogenes mutant has a transposon insertion in a gene encoding a putative membrane protein and shows altered (p)ppGpp levels

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3955-3959

  Liu, Siqing ^a   Bayles, Darrell O ^b   Mason, Tricia M ^c   Wilkinson, Brian J ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISMS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

GENE ENCODING; HOMOLOGY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PUTATIVE MEMBRANE; TRANSMEMBRANE;

GENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METAL; PHOSPHATASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PGPH; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CRYOBIOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD SENSITIVITY; CYTOSOL; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROPHILICITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PGPH GENE; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLD; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 33745127719     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02607-05     Document Type: Article

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