Citrate utilization by Corynebacterium glutamicum is controlled by the CitAB two-component system through positive regulation of the citrate transport genes citH and tctCBA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3869-3880

  Brocker, Melanie ^a   Schaffer, Steffen ^a,b   Mack, Christina ^a   Bott, Michael ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; CITA KINASE; CITRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MAGNESIUM ION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CITB; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CITRATE BINDING TRANSPORT PROTEIN; CITRATE-BINDING TRANSPORT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON SOURCE; CITH GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TCTCBA GENE; WILD TYPE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CITRIC ACID; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 67549146962     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00113-09     Document Type: Article

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