Physiological responses to starvation in the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp. strain RB2256

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2037-2044

  Fegatella, Fitri ^a   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPHINGOMONAS; STARVATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEAWATER; SPHINGOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM; VIBRIO ANGUSTUM;

EID: 0034058038     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.2037-2044.2000     Document Type: Article

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