Prokaryotic osmoregulation: Genetics and physiology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue , 1991, Pages 569-606

  Csonka, Laszlo N ^a   Hanson, Andrew D ^b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

compatible solutes; growth in high osmolality; osmotic control of gene expression; turgor regulation; volume regulation

Indexed keywords

GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0026006215     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.mi.45.100191.003033     Document Type: Review

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