The glgB-encoded glycogen branching enzyme is essential for glycogen accumulation in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3243-3251

  Seibold, Gerd M ^a   Breitinger, Katrin J ^b   Kempkes, Raoul ^a   Both, Leonard ^a,c   Krämer, Matthias ^a   Dempf, Stefan ^b   Eikmanns, Bernhard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON SOURCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 80155132373     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051565-0     Document Type: Article

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