Role of a serine-type d-alanyl-d-alanine carboxypeptidase on the survival of Ochrobactrum sp. 11a under ionic and hyperosmotic stress

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-273

  Príncipe, Analía ^a   Jofré, Edgardo ^a   Alvarez, Florencia ^a   Mori, Gladys ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cell morphology; Cell wall; Ochrobactrum; Penicillin binding proteins; Saline stress

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE TRANSPEPTIDASE; COPPER SULFATE; DETERGENT; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MACROGOL; MANNITOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; ZINC SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; IONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OCHROBACTRUM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; SALT-TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE-TYPE D-ALA-D-ALA CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; OCHROBACTRUM SP.; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 65649125630     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01604.x     Document Type: Article

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