The highly tolerant acetic acid bacterium Gluconacetobacter europaeus adapts to the presence of acetic acid by changes in lipid composition, morphological properties and PQQ-dependent ADH expression

Extremophiles

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 627-635

  Trček, Janja ^a,b   Jernejc, Katarina ^c   Matsushita, Kazunobu ^b  

^a Limnos   (Slovenia)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Acetic acid bacteria; Acetic acid resistance; Acetobacter sp.; Cell morphology; Gluconacetobacter europaeus; Lipid composition; PQQ dependent alcohol dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PYRROLOQUINOLINEQUINONE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GLUCONACETOBACTER; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACETIC ACID; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FATTY ACIDS; GLUCONACETOBACTER; LIPID METABOLISM; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROLS; PQQ COFACTOR;

ACETOBACTER; ACETOBACTER SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER EUROPAEUS;

EID: 34347361556     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-007-0077-y     Document Type: Article

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