Improving Acetate Tolerance of Escherichia coli by Rewiring Its Global Regulator cAMP Receptor Protein (CRP)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Chong, Huiqing ^a   Yeow, Jianwei ^b   Wang, Ivy ^b   Song, Hao ^a   Jiang, Rongrong ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b ASM Technology Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; UXAB GENE;

ACETATES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; SALT-TOLERANCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885035726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077422     Document Type: Article

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