Role of cold shock proteins in growth of Listeria monocytogenes under cold and osmotic stress conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1621-1627

  Schmid, Barbara ^a   Klumpp, Jochen ^b   Raimann, Eveline ^a   Loessner, Martin J ^b   Stephan, Roger ^a   Tasara, Taurai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION RESPONSE; COLD SHOCKS; COLD STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD SAFETIES; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL CONTROLS; MONOCYTOGENES; OPTIMAL TEMPERATURES; OSMOTIC STRESS; PUBLIC HEALTHS;

GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

OSMOSIS;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; FOOD SAFETY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MUTATION; OSMOSIS; PROTEIN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLD TEMPERATURE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 62149083407     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02154-08     Document Type: Article

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