Mlc of Thermus thermophilus: A glucose-specific regulator for a glucose/mannose ABC transporter in the absence of the phosphotransferase system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6561-6571

  Chevance, Fabienne F V ^a,b   Erhardt, Marc ^a   Lengsfeld, Christina ^a   Lee, Sung Jae ^a   Boos, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE; MALTOSE; MANNOSE; PALATINOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT SYSTEM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MLC GENE; OPERON; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUCOSE; MANNOSE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 33748781189     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00715-06     Document Type: Article

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