Osmosensing and osmoregulatory compatible solute accumulation by bacteria

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 437-460

  Wood, Janet M ^a   Bremer, Erhard ^b   Csonka, Laszlo N ^c   Kraemer, Reinhard ^d   Poolman, Bert ^e   Van der Heide, Tiemen ^e   Smith, Linda T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Bacteria; Choline; Compatible solute; Curvature stress; Ectoine; Glycine betaine; Osmoregulation; Osmosensing; Proline; Secondary transporter; Solute transport; Stress; Uptake; Volume regulation

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BETAINE; CARNITINE; CHOLINE; ECTOINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROLINE; TREHALOSE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYDRATION; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALINITY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMORECEPTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; OPUA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0034794118     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(01)00442-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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