The extracellular-matrix-retaining cyanobacterium Nostoc verrucosum accumulates trehalose, but is sensitive to desiccation

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-394

  Sakamoto, Toshio ^a   Kumihashi, Keisuke ^a   Kunita, Shinpei ^a   Masaura, Takuya ^a   Inoue Sakamoto, Kaori ^b   Yamaguchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compatible solute; Extracellular polysaccharide; Stress tolerance; Water stress protein (WspA)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; TREHALOSE; URONIC ACID; WATER;

AMINO ACID; AQUATIC ORGANISM; COLONY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESICCATION; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SUGAR; TOLERANCE; VIABILITY; WATER STRESS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESICCATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FREEZING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSTOC; NOSTOC COMMUNE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; DESICCATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FREEZING; GENES, BACTERIAL; NOSTOC; NOSTOC COMMUNE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREHALOSE; URONIC ACIDS; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC COMMUNE; NOSTOC SP.; NOSTOC VERRUCOSUM;

EID: 79960159774     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01114.x     Document Type: Article

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