Sialic acid utilization by the soil bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 336, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-138

  Gruteser, Nadine ^a,b   Marin, Kay ^b   Krämer, Reinhard ^b   Thomas, Gavin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Corynebacterium; Sialic acid; Soil

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARBON; GLUCOSE; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; SIALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON SOURCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE ORDER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 84867996528     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02663.x     Document Type: Article

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