Escherichia coli resistance to chlorine and glutathione synthesis in response to oxygenation and starvation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5600-5603

  Saby, Sébastien ^a   Leroy, Pierre ^b   Block, Jean Claude ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE SOLS ET ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Centre du Medicament URA CNRS 597   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; GLUTATHIONE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; THIOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL PROTECTION; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; STARVATION;

EID: 0032757524     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.12.5600-5603.1999     Document Type: Article

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