The High Salt Requirement of the Moderate Halophile Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM3043 can be Met not Only by NaCl but by other Ions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 6334-6336

  O'Connor, Kathleen ^a   Csonka, Laszlo N ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GROWTH KINETICS; IONIC CONDUCTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

IONIC CONCENTRATION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

AMMONIA; BROMIDE; CHLORIDE; ION; NITRATE; POTASSIUM ION; RUBIDIUM ION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOHALOBACTER SALEXIGENS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH RATE; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN;

CULTURE MEDIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IONS; SALTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOHALOBACTER; CHROMOHALOBACTER SALEXIGENS;

EID: 0142072722     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.6334-6336.2003     Document Type: Article

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