Genome-Wide Transcriptional Profiling Analysis of Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis to High Salinity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 6358-6370

  Steil, Leif ^a,b,c   Hoffmann, Tamara ^a   Budde, Ina ^a   Völker, Uwe ^a,b,c   Bremer, Erhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SALINITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IRON; MOVEMENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULON; RNA, TRANSFER; SIGMA FACTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OCTODON DEGUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0142214662     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.21.6358-6370.2003     Document Type: Article

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