Glycerol-mediated repression of glucose metabolism and glycerol kinase as the sole route of glycerol catabolism in the haloarchaeon Haloferax volcanii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4307-4315

  Sherwood, Katherine E ^a   Cano, David José ^a   Maupin Furlow, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCEROL KINASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEPTONE; RNA; ARCHAEAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON SOURCE; CARBON UTILIZATION; CATABOLISM; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HALOBACTERIA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 67649389656     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00131-09     Document Type: Article

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