[Preliminary characterization of a new system allowing maltose assimilation by Escherichia coli].

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[Preliminary characterization of a new system allowing maltose assimilation by Escherichia coli].

Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. Microbiology - 1 Jan 2000

Bloch M A, Raibaud O

Abstract excerpt

We showed that Klebsiella pneumoniae and Erwinia herbicola possessed a pathway for maltose metabolism which could function in parallel with that encoded by the classical maltose regulon. Indeed, specific DNA fragments isolated from these two bacteria allowed growth on maltose of any of the mal mu...

Topics

DNA, Bacterial
Erwinia
Escherichia coli
Genes, Regulator
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Maltose
Mutation
Plasmids
Transcription, Genetic

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