The orotate transporter encoded by oroP from Lactococcus lactis is required for orotate utilization and has utility as a food-grade selectable marker

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3645-3659

  Defoor, Els ^a   Kryger, Maj Britt ^a   Martinussen, Jan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COPPER POTASSIUM TRANSPORTING ATPASE B; FLUOROOROTIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OROP PROTEIN; OROTIC ACID; PYRIMIDINE; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YSBA PROTEIN; YSBB PROTEIN; YSBC PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OROTIC ACID; PLASMIDS; PYRIMIDINES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. LACTIS BV. DIACETYLACTIS;

EID: 36448978851     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/005959-0     Document Type: Article

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