Extremophilic yeasts: Plasma-membrane fluidity as determinant of stress tolerance

Fungal Biology

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 950-958

  Turk, Martina ^a   Plemenitaš, Ana ^a   Gunde Cimerman, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

EPR spectroscopy; Halophilic halotolerant yeast; Plasma membrane fluidity; Psychrotolerant yeast; Temperature

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; COLONIZATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTREMOPHILE; FLUIDIZATION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE; PLASMA; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; YEAST;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; YEAST;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; COLD TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ICE COVER; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; YEASTS;

ARCTIC;

AUREOBASIDIUM; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; AUREOBASIDIUM SP.; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CRYPTOCOCCUS LIQUEFACIENS; FUNGI; HORTAEA WERNECKII; RHODOSPORIDIUM; RHODOSPORIDIUM DIOBOVATUM; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80053205518     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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