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Multiple sugar: phosphotransferase system permeases participate in catabolite modification of gene expression in Streptococcus mutans.

Solution structure of NPr, a bacterial signal-transducing protein that controls the phosphorylation state of the potassium transporter-regulating protein IIA Ntr.

Structural investigation of a phosphorylation-catalyzed, isoaspartate-free, protein succinimide: crystallographic structure of post-succinimide His15Asp histidine-containing protein.

Requirements for the phosphorylation of the Escherichia coli EIIANtr protein in vivo.

Defining the Epitope Region of a Peptide from the Streptomyces coelicolor Phosphoenolpyruvate:Sugar Phosphotransferase System Able to Bind to the Enzyme I

Screen for leukotoxin mutants in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans: genes of the phosphotransferase system are required for leukotoxin biosynthesis.

Switching control of expression of ptsG from the Mlc regulon to the NagC regulon.

Impact of phosphorylation on structure and thermodynamics of the interaction between the N-terminal domain of enzyme I and the histidine phosphocarrier protein of the bacterial phosphotransferase system.

Molecular characterization of group A Streptococcus maltodextrin catabolism and its role in pharyngitis.

Activation of glucose transport under oxidative stress in Escherichia coli.

Up-regulation of the cellular level of Escherichia coli PTS components by stabilizing reduced transcripts of the genes in response to the low oxygen level

Protein disorder is positively correlated with gene expression in Escherichia coli.

The cyclic AMP-dependent catabolite repression system of Serratia marcescens mediates biofilm formation through regulation of type 1 fimbriae.

Evidence of in vivo cross talk between the nitrogen-related and fructose-related branches of the carbohydrate phosphotransferase system of Pseudomonas putida.

The sim operon facilitates the transport and metabolism of sucrose isomers in Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334.

Sinorhizobium meliloti mutants lacking phosphotransferase system enzyme HPr or EIIA are altered in diverse processes, including carbon metabolism, cobalt requirements, and succinoglycan production.

The mechanisms of carbon catabolite repression in bacteria.

Protein production by Escherichia coli wild-type and DeltaptsG mutant strains with IPTG induction at the onset.

Visualization of transient ultra-weak protein self-association in solution using paramagnetic relaxation enhancement.

Analyses of Mlc-IIBGlc interaction and a plausible molecular mechanism of Mlc inactivation by membrane sequestration.