Modulating Membrane Composition Alters Free Fatty Acid Tolerance in Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lennen, Rebecca M ^a,b,c   Pfleger, Brian F ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECARBOXYLATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HYDROLYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRODUCTIVITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; PAENIBACILLUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 84872661350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054031     Document Type: Article

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