Fermentation stage-dependent adaptations of Bacillus licheniformis during enzyme production

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wiegand, Sandra ^a   Voigt, Birgit ^b   Albrecht, Dirk ^b   Bongaerts, Johannes ^c   Evers, Stefan ^c   Hecker, Michael ^b   Daniel, Rolf ^a   Liesegang, Heiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c HENKEL KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential gene expression; Industrial production; Lichenicidin; Proteomics; RNA Seq; Sporulation; Stress response; Subtilisin Carlsberg; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

LANTIBIOTIC; PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FERMENTATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA SEQUENCE; STARVATION; STRESS;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACILLUS; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84888992435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-120     Document Type: Article

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