Intracellular trehalose is neither necessary nor sufficient for desiccation tolerance in yeast

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 902-913

  Ratnakumar, Sooraj ^a   Tunnacliffe, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anhydrobiosis; Desiccation tolerance; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Trehalose; Yeast

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESICCATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEAT STRESS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TPS1 GENE; YEAST;

CYTOPLASM; DESICCATION; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TREHALOSE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33747335238     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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