Lipid membranes from halophilic and alkali-halophilic Archaea have a low H+ and Na+ permeability at high salt concentration

Extremophiles

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 253-257

  Van De Vossenberg, Jack L C M ^a   Driessen, Arnold J M ^a   Grant, William D ^b   Konings, Grant Wil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaliphiles; Halophiles; Membrane stability; Permeability

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HYDROGEN; ION EXCHANGE; LIPID BILAYER; LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PH; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SALINITY; SALT; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTE CONCENTRATION;

ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALORUBRUM VACUOLATUM;

EID: 0033226813     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050124     Document Type: Article

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