Mycobacterium hassiacum recovers from nitrogen starvation with up-regulation of a novel glucosylglycerate hydrolase and depletion of the accumulated glucosylglycerate

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Alarico, Susana ^a   Costa, Mafalda ^a   Sousa, Marta S ^a   Maranha, Ana ^a   Lourenço, Eva C ^b   Faria, Tiago Q ^a   Ventura, M Rita ^b   Empadinhas, Nuno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE MEDIUM; GLYCERIC ACID; HYDROLASE; NITROGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE ORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROLYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CULTURE MEDIA; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCERIC ACIDS; HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84925854243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06766     Document Type: Article

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