L-fucose stimulates utilization of D-ribose by Escherichia coli MG1655 ΔfucAO and E. coli Nissle 1917 ΔfucAO mutants in the mouse intestine and in M9 minimal medium

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5465-5475

  Autieri, Steven M ^a   Lins, Jeremy J ^a   Leatham, Mary P ^a   Laux, David C ^a   Conway, Tyrrell ^b   Cohen, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; FUCOSE; FUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; RIBOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; FUCOSE; GENE DELETION; HEXOSEPHOSPHATES; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); RIBOSE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 35649000911     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00822-07     Document Type: Article

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