Prochlorococcus can use the Pro1404 transporter to take up glucose at nanomolar concentrations in the Atlantic Ocean

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8597-8602

  Del Carmen Muñoz Marín, María ^a   Luque, Ignacio ^b   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^c   Hill, Polly G ^c   Diez, Jesús ^a   García Fernández, José Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High affinity glucose transport; Marine cyanobacteria; Multiphasic uptake kinetics

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROLINE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

HIGH-AFFINITY GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; MARINE CYANOBACTERIA; MULTIPHASIC UPTAKE KINETICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84878137576     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221775110     Document Type: Article

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