Bioenergetics and cytoplasmic membrane stability of the extremely acidophilic, thermophilic archaeon Picrophilus oshimae

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 67-74

  Van de Vossenberg, Jack L C M ^a   Driessen, Arnold J M ^a   Zillig, Wolfram ^b   Konings, Wil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic membrane; Permeability; Picrophilus oshimae; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CELL INTEGRITY; CYTOPLASM; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE; PH;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; THERMOPLASMALES;

ARCHAEA; PICROPHILUS OSHIMAE;

EID: 0032076479     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050044     Document Type: Article

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