Global response to desiccation stress in the soil actinomycete Rhodococcus jostii RHA1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2627-2636

  LeBlanc, Justin C ^a   Gonçalves, Edmilson R ^a,b   Mohn, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; METABOLISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

CRYOFIXATION; STRESS PROTECTION;

BACTERIA;

ECTOINE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR SIGF1; SIGMA FACTOR SIGF3;

BACTERIUM; DESICCATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE; PROTEIN; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOREMEDIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DPS1 GENE; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMIDITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DESICCATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII;

EID: 43049126811     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02711-07     Document Type: Article

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