Weak organic acid treatment causes a trehalose accumulation in low-pH cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, not displayed by the more preservative-resistant Zygosaccharomyces bailii

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-95

  Cheng, Lili ^a   Moghraby, Jeelan ^a   Piper, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat shock; Intracellular pH; Phosphofructokinase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sorbic acid; Trehalose; Zygosaccharomyces bailii

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; PRESERVATIVE; SORBIC ACID; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL PH; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES;

FOOD PRESERVATIVES; GLYCOLYSIS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE-1; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SORBIC ACID; TREHALOSE; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES BAILII;

EID: 0032898442     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00524-2     Document Type: Article

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