Toward understanding life under subzero conditions: The significance of exploring psychrophilic "cold-Shock" proteins

Astrobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1078-1086

  Kuhn, Emanuele ^a,b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLD; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSYCHROBACTER; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLD SHOCK PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; COLD TEMPERATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FREEZING; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSYCHROBACTER; RNA HELICASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSYCHROBACTER; PSYCHROBACTER ARCTICUS 273-4;

EID: 84868356589     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2012.0858     Document Type: Review

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