Current knowledge of the Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate-carbohydrate phosphotransferase system: Peculiarities of regulation and impact on growth and product formation

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1483-1494

  Escalante, Adelfo ^a   Cervantes, Ania Salinas ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a   Bolívar, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carbon catabolite repression; Escherichia coli; Metabolite production; PTS

Indexed keywords

GENES; GLUCOSE; METABOLITES; MIXTURES; PLATINUM;

ADAPTIVE SELECTION; CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSION; METABOLITE PRODUCTION; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PRODUCTION STRAIN; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACETIC ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; LACTOSE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; CATABOLISM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH RATE; METABOLITE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CHEMOSTAT; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SUGAR INTAKE; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CATABOLITE REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM;

EID: 84867322381     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4101-5     Document Type: Review

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