Bacterial Osmosensing Transporters

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 428, Issue , 2007, Pages 77-107

  Wood, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; AQUAPORIN; COTRANSPORTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; PROP PROTEIN, E COLI; PROTEOLIPID; PROTEOLIPOSOMES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; FLUID BALANCE; HYDRATION; IONIC STRENGTH; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOLARITY; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOLIPOSOME; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUTE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TURGOR PRESSURE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

AQUAPORINS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEOLIPIDS; SYMPORTERS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 35748942898     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)28005-X     Document Type: Chapter

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