Thermodynamic boundary conditions suggest that a passive transport step suffices for citrate excretion in Aspergillus and Penicillium

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 887-893

  Burgstaller, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Institute of Microbiology   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; MAGNESIUM;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CALCULATION; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HYDROLYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM SIMPLICISSIMUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; THERMODYNAMICS;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CITRATES; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PENICILLIUM; THERMODYNAMICS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM SIMPLICISSIMUM;

EID: 33645099130     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28454-0     Document Type: Article

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