Chloride and organic osmolytes: A hybrid strategy to cope with elevated salinities by the moderately halophilic, chloride-dependent bacterium Halobacillus halophilus

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1619-1633

  Saum, Stephan H ^a   Pfeiffer, Friedhelm ^b   Palm, Peter ^b   Rampp, Markus ^c   Schuster, Stephan C ^d   Müller, Volker ^a   Oesterhelt, Dieter ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; PROTEOME; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOBACILLUS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY;

CHLORIDES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HALOBACILLUS; HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEOME; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBACILLUS; HALOBACILLUS HALOPHILUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84876489799     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02770.x     Document Type: Article

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