RNA arbitrarily primed PCR and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy reveal plasticity in the acid tolerance response of Streptococcus macedonicus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6068-6076

  Papadimitriou, Konstantinos ^a,b   Boutou, Effrossyni ^b   Zoumpopoulou, Georgia ^a   Tarantilis, Petros A ^a   Polissiou, Moschos ^a   Vorgias, Constantinos E ^b   Tsakalidou, Effie ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ACIDS; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COSMIC RAYS; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; FATTY ACIDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCEROL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; PROTEINS; RNA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING;

ACID ADAPTATIONS; ACID TOLERANCE RESPONSES; ACIDIC PHS; ACYL CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL WALLS; CELLULAR COMPOSITIONS; CELLULAR CONSTITUENTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DIACYLGLYCEROL; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; GENES CODING; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYPOTHETICAL PROTEINS; IR-SPECTRA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL REGIONS; STATIONARY PHASES; STRESS CONDITIONS; SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILES;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE; FATTY ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA; ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA;

ACIDITY; ADSORPTION; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA; TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA FINGERPRINTING; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MACEDONICUS; ADAPTATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS MACEDONICUS;

ACIDS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 54449097775     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00315-08     Document Type: Article

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