AmtB-mediated NH3 transport in prokaryotes must be active and as a consequence regulation of transport by GlnK is mandatory to limit futile cycling of NH4+/NH3

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-28

  Boogerd, Fred C ^a   Ma, Hongwu ^b   Bruggeman, Frank J ^a   Van Heeswijk, Wally C ^a   García Contreras, Rodolfo ^a   Molenaar, Douwe ^a   Krab, Klaas ^a   Westerhoff, Hans V ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active transport; AmtB; Futile cycling; GlnK

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CELL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEIN AMTB; PROTEIN GLNK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMTB PROTEIN, E COLI; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLNK PROTEIN, E COLI; NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC REGULATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

PROKARYOTA;

AMMONIA; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATE CYCLING;

EID: 78650857714     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.11.055     Document Type: Article

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