Osmotic stress leads to decreased intracellular pH of Listeria monocytogenes as determined by fluorescence ratio-imaging microscopy

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3176-3179

  Fang, Weihuan ^a   Siegumfeldt, Henrik ^b   Budde, Birgitte Bjørn ^b   Jakobsen, Mogens ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER; GLYCEROL; PH EFFECTS; STRESSES;

LIQUID MEDIUM; OSMOTIC STRESS; SOLID MEDIUM; SORBITOL;

OSMOSIS;

AGAR; DICYCLOHEXYLCARBODIIMIDE; GLYCEROL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL PH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIQUID; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PH MEASUREMENT; SOLID STATE;

CULTURE MEDIA; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 2442664414     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3176-3179.2004     Document Type: Article

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