Effects of temperature, salinity, and medium composition on compatible solute accumulation by Thermococcus spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3591-3598

  Lamosa, Pedro ^a   Martins, Lígia O ^a   Da Costa, Milton S ^b   Santos, Helena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLYCERIC ACID; GROWTH FACTOR; INOSITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL METABOLISM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS CELER; THERMOCOCCUS LITORALIS; THERMOCOCCUS STETTERI; THERMOCOCCUS ZILLIGII;

EID: 0031662628     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.3591-3598.1998     Document Type: Article

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