Modification of glucose import capacity in Escherichia coli: Physiologic consequences and utility for improving DNA vaccine production

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fuentes, Laura G ^a   Lara, Alvaro R ^b   Martínez, Luz M ^a   Ramírez, Octavio T ^a   Martínez, Alfredo ^a   Bolívar, Francisco ^a   Gosset, Guillermo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE PROCESOS Y TECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate phosphotransferase system; DNA vaccine; Escherichia coli; Glucose transport; Phosphoenolpyruvate

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; DNA VACCINE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSIDE; MALTOSE; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN;

ACETIC ACID; BIOMASS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; KINETICS; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PLASMIDS; VACCINES, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84876862339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-42     Document Type: Article

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