Amino acid uptake and metabolism of Legionella pneumophila hosted by Acanthamoeba castellanii

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 21040-21054

  Schunder, Eva ^a   Gillmaier, Nadine ^b   Kutzner, Erika ^b   Herrmann, Vroni ^a   Lautner, Monika ^a   Heuner, Klaus ^a   Eisenreich, Wolfgang ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUCOSE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; GLUCOSE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 84905373881     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.570085     Document Type: Article

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