Glucose inhibits the formation of gas vesicles in Haloferax volcanii transformants

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-30

  Hechler, Torsten ^a   Frech, Miriam ^a   Pfeifer, Felicitas ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS VESICLE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; NITRATE; PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; GLUCOSE; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; NITRATES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII;

EID: 38149142303     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01426.x     Document Type: Article

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