Environmental stress responses in Lactococcus lactis

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 483-501

  Sanders, Jan Willem ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Kok, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Lactic acid bacterium; Lactococcus lactis; Physical stress condition; Stress resistance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ACIDITY; CHEESE; COLD STRESS; COOLING; CROSS RESISTANCE; DEHYDRATION; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERMENTATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT STRESS; HEATING; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PHYSICAL STRESS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STARVATION; STRESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033047915     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(99)00017-0     Document Type: Review

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