Biosynthesis of osmoregulated periplasmic glucans in Escherichia coli: The membrane-bound and the soluble periplasmic phosphoglycerol transferases are encoded by the same gene

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 476-483

  Lequette, Yannick ^a   Lanfroy, Eric ^a   Cogez, Virginie ^a   Bohin, Jean Pierre ^a   Lacroix, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GLUCAN; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; OSMOREGULATED PERIPLASMIC GLUCAN; OSMOREGULATED PERIPLASMIC GLUCAN B; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHOGLYCEROL TRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOGLYCEROL TRANSFERASE 1; PHOSPHOGLYCEROL TRANSFERASE 2; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE FUSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCANS; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS); TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 39749173102     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/013169-0     Document Type: Article

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