Role of rpoS in the development of cell envelope resilience and pressure resistance in stationary-phase Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5220-5229

  Charoenwong, Duangkamol ^a   Andrews, Simon ^a   Mackey, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS UPTAKE; CELL ENVELOPES; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; E. COLI; LOWER PRESSURES; MEMBRANE INTEGRITY; OUTER MEMBRANE; PARENT STRAIN; PARENTAL STRAINS; PERMEABILIZATION; PRESSURE RESISTANCE; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; PRESSURE SENSITIVITIES; PRESSURE TREATMENTS; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; STATIONARY PHASE; SYNTHASES;

CELL MEMBRANES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; ION BEAMS; MEMBRANES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROPANE;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

CELL ORGANELLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLONY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYTOPLASM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IODINE; MEMBRANE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; OXIDATION; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPID; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROTEIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRESSURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE; PROPIDIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79961060639     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00648-11     Document Type: Article

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