The fats of Escherichia coli during infancy and old age: Regulation by global regulators, alarmones and lipid intermediates

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  DiRusso, Concetta C ^a   Nyström, Thomas ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; CYCLIC AMP; MEMBRANE LIPID;

AGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; PHOSPHOLIPID METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STRESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031983015     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00645.x     Document Type: Review

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