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Complementation of a Delta ccpA mutant of Lactobacillus casei with CcpA mutants affected in the DNA- and cofactor-binding domains.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Mar 2004
Esteban Carlos D, Mahr Kerstin, Monedero Vicente, Hillen Wolfgang, Pérez-Martínez Gaspar, Titgemeyer Fritz
Abstract excerpt
In low-G+C Gram-positive bacteria, the regulatory protein CcpA has been shown to play a major part in the so-called carbon catabolite repression (CCR) process, as well as in the induction of basic metabolic genes, for which it is considered a global regulator. A strain of Lactobacillus casei that carried a complete deletion of ccpA has been constructed and used to test the effect of CCR on N-acetylglucosaminidase...
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