Role of Ectoine in Vibrio cholerae Osmoadaptation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5919-5927

  Pflughoeft, Kathryn J ^a   Kierek, Katharine ^a   Watnick, Paula I ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DISEASES; ESTUARIES; SEAWATER;

INTESTINAL PATHOGENS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BETAINE; ECTOINE; FRESH WATER; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESTUARY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; SOLUTE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0142040903     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.5919-5927.2003     Document Type: Article

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