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Identification and characterization of the pckA gene from Staphylococcus aureus
W H Scovill1, H J Schreier, K W Bayles
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 21228, USA.
Journal of Bacteriology
|June 1, 1996
Abstract:
The Staphylococcus aureus pckA gene was identified and characterized. A pckA mutant lacked detectable phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity and grew poorly in the absence of glucose. Both enzymatic activity and pckA promoter activity in wild-type cells grown in the absence of glucose were at least 22-fold greater than activities in cells grown in the presence of glucose.