Coordination of microbial metabolism

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 327-340

  Chubukov, Victor ^a   Gerosa, Luca ^a   Kochanowski, Karl ^a   Sauer, Uwe ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; CARBON; CYCLIC AMP; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE; NITROGEN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; ENERGY METABOLISM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NITROGEN;

EID: 84899047521     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3238     Document Type: Review

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