Article
Ammonium utilization in Bacillus subtilis: transport and regulatory functions of NrgA and NrgB.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Nov 2003
Detsch Christian, Stülke Jörg
Abstract excerpt
Bacillus subtilis uses glutamine as the best source of nitrogen. In the absence of glutamine, alternative nitrogen sources such as ammonium can be used. Ammonium utilization involves the uptake of the gas or the ammonium ion, the synthesis of glutamine by the glutamine synthetase and the recycling of the glutamate by the glutamate synthase. In this work, ammonium transport in B. subtilis was studied. At high...
Topics
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Biological Transport
- DNA Primers
- Genotype
- Kinetics
- Membrane Proteins
- Methylamines
- PII Nitrogen Regulatory Proteins
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
- Signal Transduction
- Transcription Factors
- Transformation, Bacterial