The legacy of HfrH: Mutations in the two-component system CreBC are responsible for the unusual phenotype of an Escherichia coli arcA mutant

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3404-3407

  Nikel, Pablo I ^a,b   De Almeida, Alejandra ^a   Pettinari, M Julia ^a   Méndez, Beatriz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARCA GENE; ARCA2 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CREBC GENE; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROMES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN COMPLEX PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ARCA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 42549116263     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00040-08     Document Type: Article

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