Composition and content of osmoprotectants in oil-oxidizing bacteria grown under different cultivation conditions

Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-27

  Matveeva, N I ^a   Voronina, N A ^a   Borzenkov, I A ^a   Plakunov, V K ^a   Belyaev, S S ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Corynebacteria; Glycine betaine; Hydrocarbon oxidation; Osmoprotectants; Osmoregulation; Rhodococci

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644482050     PISSN: 00262617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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