The phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent glucose-phosphotransferase system from Escherichia coli K-12 as the center of a network regulating carbohydrate flux in the cell

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 711-720

  Gabor, Elisabeth ^a   Göhler, Anna Katharina ^a   Kosfeld, Anne ^a   Staab, Ariane ^a   Kremling, Andreas ^b   Jahreis, Knut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial phosphotransferase system; Carbohydrate transport; Catabolite repression; Gene regulation; Glucose; Integral membrane protein; Metabolic balance; Mlc; Modeling; MtfA; PTS; PtsG; SgrT

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE;

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL CELL; CATALYSIS; CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 80955179563     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: 16181298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2011.04.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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