Transport capabilities of eleven gram-positive bacteria: Comparative genomic analyses

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1768, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1342-1366

  Lorca, Graciela L ^a   Barabote, Ravi D ^a   Zlotopolski, Vladimir ^a   Tran, Can ^a   Winnen, Brit ^a   Hvorup, Rikki N ^a   Stonestrom, Aaron J ^a   Nguyen, Elizabeth ^a   Huang, Li Wen ^a   Kim, David S ^a   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetics; Genomic analyses; Lactic acid bacteria; Transport proteins

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID; ANION; CARBOXYLYASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; DIVALENT CATION; GLYCOPROTEIN P; GLYCOSIDE; ION CHANNEL; MONOVALENT CATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOSIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYAMINE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUGAR;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EFFUSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS CREMORIS; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; OENOCOCCUS OENI; OSMOTIC STRESS; PEDIOCOCCUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SECRETORY CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACTERIUM LINENS; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 34249033678     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.02.007     Document Type: Review

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