Glass-forming property of hydroxyectoine is the cause of its superior function as a desiccation protectant

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Tanne, Christoph ^a   Golovina, Elena A ^b   Hoekstra, Folkert A ^b   Meffert, Andrea ^a   Galinski, Erwin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desiccation; Enzyme stabilization; ESR; FTIR; Glass transition temperature; Hydroxyectoine

Indexed keywords

ECTOINE; FREE RADICAL; HYDROXYECTOINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SUCROSE; TEMPONE; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANHYDROBIOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DESICCATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; GROWTH CURVE; HALOMONAS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROXYLATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE STRESS; WATER STRESS;

EID: 84899693885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00150     Document Type: Article

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