Highly thermostable exopolysaccharide produced by the moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a man-made young salt lake in Romania

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 289-294

  Cojoc, Roxana ^a   Merciu, Simona ^a   Oancea, Petruta ^b   Pincu, Elena ^b   Dumitru, Lucia ^a   Enache, Mǎdǎlin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Halophilic bacteria; Halophilic exopolysaccharides; Salt lakes microflora; Thermostable polymer

Indexed keywords

AMINE; CASAMINO ACID; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; POLYMER; RIBOSOME RNA; SUCROSE; SULFATE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEGRADATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT LAKE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY; YEAST;

BACTERIA; HOT TEMPERATURE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; ROMANIA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77649198550     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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