Metallosphaera sedula TA-2, a calditoglycerocaldarchaeol deletion strain of a thermoacidophilic archaeon

Extremophiles

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 241-245

  Itoh, Yuko H ^a   Kurosawa, Norio ^a   Uda, Ikuko ^b   Sugai, Akihiko ^b   Tanoue, Shin ^b   Itoh, Takashi ^c,d   Horiuchi, Tadao ^a   Itoh, Toshihiro ^b  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Acidophile; Archaea; Calditoglycerocaldarchaeol; Metallosphaera; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

CALDITOGLYCEROCALDARCHAEOL; DIACYLGLYCEROL; GLYCOLIPID;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SULFOLOBALES; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; DIGLYCERIDES; GENE DELETION; GLYCOLIPIDS; SULFOLOBALES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035432529     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100195     Document Type: Article

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