Ribose utilization by the human commensal Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

Growth of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 on ribose leads to the transcriptional induction of the rbsACBDK gene cluster. Generation and phenotypic analysis of an rbsA insertion mutant established that the rbs gene cluster is essential for ribose utilization, and that its transcription is likely regula...

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Main Authors: Pokusaeva, Karina, Neves, Ana Rute, Zomer, Aldert, O'Connell‐Motherway, Mary, MacSharry, John, Curley, Peter, Fitzgerald, Gerald F., Van Sinderen, Douwe
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815373/