Development of a genetic system for the moderately halophilic bacterium Halobacillus halophilus: Generation and characterization of mutants defect in the production of the compatible solute proline

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2122-2131

  Köcher, Saskia ^a   Averhoff, Beate ^a   Müller, Volker ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; PROLINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOBACILLUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HALOBACILLUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROLINE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBACILLUS; HALOBACILLUS HALOPHILUS;

EID: 79961158665     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02437.x     Document Type: Article

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