The Growth Advantage in Stationary-Phase Phenotype Conferred by rpoS Mutations Is Dependent on the pH and Nutrient Environment

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7044-7052

  Farrell, Michael J ^a   Finkel, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASAMINO ACID; GLUCOSE;

ACIDITY; ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON SOURCE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PH MEASUREMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOS GENE; WILD TYPE;

ACIDS; ALKALIES; ALLELES; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHENOTYPE; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0344235402     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.24.7044-7052.2003     Document Type: Article

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