Mutations that alter the regulation of the chb operon of Escherichia coli allow utilization of cellobiose

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1382-1395

  Kachroo, Aashiq H ^a   Kancherla, Aswani K ^a   Singh, Nongmaithem S ^a   Varshney, Umesh ^a   Mahadevan, Subramony ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CELLOBIOSE; DNA; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELLOBIOSE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISACCHARIDES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 36549027279     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05999.x     Document Type: Article

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