Engineering desiccation tolerance in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1680-1684

  Billi, Daniela ^a   Wright, Deborah J ^a   Helm, Richard F ^a   Prickett, Todd ^a   Potts, Malcolm ^a,c   Crowe, John H ^b  

^a Fralin Life Science Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c 205 Engel Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS PENTOXIDE; SUCROSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZE DRYING; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; SURVIVAL;

CYANOBACTERIA; DESICCATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZE DRYING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SUCROSE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0034038186     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1680-1684.2000     Document Type: Article

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