Role of trehalose in salinity and temperature tolerance in the model halophilic bacterium chromohalobacter salexigens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Reina Bueno, Mercedes ^a   Argandoña, Montserrat ^a   Salvador, Manuel ^a   Rodríguez Moya, Javier ^a   Iglesias Guerra, Fernando ^a   Csonka, Laszlo N ^b   Nieto, Joaquín J ^a   Vargas, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTOINE; HYDROXYECTOINE; SYNTHETASE; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARBON; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOHALOBACTER; CHROMOHALOBACTER SALEXIGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; SALT TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THERMOREGULATION; WILD TYPE; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OSMOLARITY; SALINITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOHALOBACTER SALEXIGENS; HALOMONADACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOHALOBACTER; DESICCATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUTATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SALINITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TREHALOSE;

EID: 84858668893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033587     Document Type: Article

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