Need-based activation of ammonium uptake in Escherichia coli

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Minsu ^a   Zhang, Zhongge ^b   Okano, Hiroyuki ^a   Yan, Dalai ^c   Groisman, Alexander ^a   Hwa, Terence ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

active transport; futile cycle; integral feedback; metabolic coordination; microfluidics

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMTB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMTB PROTEIN, E COLI; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL GROWTH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOSTAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; UPREGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84867030643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2012.46     Document Type: Article

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