Salt stress and plasma-membrane fluidity in selected extremophilic yeasts and yeast-like fungi

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 550-557

  Turk, Martina ^a   Abramović, Zrinka ^b   Plemenitaš, Ana ^a   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Halophilic halotolerant yeast; NaCl stress; Plasma membrane fluidity; Psychrotolerant yeast; Yeast like fungi

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS LIQUEFACIENS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HORTAEA WERNECKII; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; SALINITY; SALT STRESS; SALT TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; ICE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; YEASTS;

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LIQUEFACIENS; FUNGI; HORTAEA WERNECKII; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA;

EID: 34249038335     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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