Choline uptake in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by the high-affinity choXWV transporter

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5119-5129

  Aktas, Meriyem ^a   Jost, Kathinka A ^a   Fritz, Christiane ^a   Narberhaus, Franz ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHOLINE UPTAKE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; DIONAEA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 80053577856     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05421-11     Document Type: Article

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