Uptake and synthesis of compatible solutes as microbial stress responses to high-osmolality environments

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 319-330

  Kempf, Bettina ^a   Bremer, Erhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC transporters; Bacillus subtilis; Efflux; Escherichia coli; Gene regulation; Glycine betaine; K+ uptake; Osmoregulation; Stress protectants; Trehalose

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; POTASSIUM ION; PROLINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TREHALOSE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPEROSMOLALITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BETAINE; CATIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUTAMATES; GLUTAMIC ACID; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; TREHALOSE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031719418     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050649     Document Type: Short Survey

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