Response mechanisms of lactic acid bacteria to alkaline environments: A review

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 185-190

  Nyanga Koumou, Armand P ^a   Ouoba, Labia Irene I ^b   Kobawila, Simon C ^a   Louembe, Delphin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MARIEN NGOUABI   (Congo)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaline fermentations; Cross protection; Gene regulation; Lactic acid bacteria; Stress and adaptive response

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CHAPERONIN; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN DNAK; PROTON; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ALKALINITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CATION TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTON SODIUM EXCHANGE; REVIEW; STRESS;

ALKALIES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOBACILLALES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROTONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863467468     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: 15497828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/1040841X.2011.640978     Document Type: Review

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