Coping with our cold planet

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1677-1686

  Rodrigues, Debora Frigi ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYDROGEN; ICE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; WATER; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

EARTH; MICROORGANISM; PLANET; SOLAR SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ASTRONOMY; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLD; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FREEZING; HABITAT; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LAND BIOME; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXIDATION; POLYMERIZATION; REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLD; EARTH (PLANET); WATER;

EID: 40849142165     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02000-07     Document Type: Short Survey

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