Identification of the leucine-to-2-methylbutyric acid catabolic pathway of Lactococcus lactis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4264-4273

  Ganesan, Balasubramanian ^a   Dobrowolski, Piotr ^a   Weimer, Bart C ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACIDS; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; CELLS; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; GENES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; SUBSTRATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONCULTURABILITY; NUTRIENT STARVATION;

BACTERIA;

2 METHYLBUTYRIC ACID; 3 HYDROXY 3 METHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A; ACETIC ACID; ACETYL COENZYME A; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRANCHED CHAIN FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID; LEUCINE; PROPIONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; STARVATION;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; COMPUTER MODEL; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEPLETION; ENERGY YIELD; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LOGARITHMIC GROWTH PHASE; METABOLITE; NONCULTURABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUTRIENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PRECURSOR; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLID; STARVATION;

BUTYRATES; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LEUCINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 33745148973     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00448-06     Document Type: Article

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