Oxygen-triggered synchronisized variant formation of the S-layer carrying Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72 during continuous cultivation

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-28

  Schuster, Kurt C ^a   Pink, Tomas ^a   Mayer, Harald F ^a   Hampel, Werner A ^b   Sara, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bacillus stearothermophilus; Continuous cultivation; Crystalline bacterial cell surface layers; S layers; Variant formation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLS; CONTINUOUS CELL CULTURE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXYGEN; PROTEINS; REDOX REACTIONS;

BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; CRYSTALLINE CELL SURFACE LAYERS; SPORULATION; VARIANT FORMATION;

BACTERIA;

EID: 0030615947     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1656(97)01687-8     Document Type: Article

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