Escherichia coli tat mutant strains are able to transport maltose in the absence of an active malE gene

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 597-604

  Caldelari, Isabelle ^a,b   Palmer, Tracy ^a   Sargent, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Outer membrane; Periplasmic binding protein; Protein transport; Tat pathway; Twin arginine signal peptide

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; MALTOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; MALE GENE; MALF GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MALTOSE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NICKEL; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 43449115666     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-008-0356-8     Document Type: Article

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