A small heat shock protein enables Escherichia coli to grow at a lethal temperature of 50°C conceivably by maintaining cell envelope integrity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2004-2011

  Ezemaduka, Anastasia N ^a   Yu, Jiayu ^a   Shi, Xiaodong ^a,c   Zhang, Kaiming ^b   Yin, Chang Cheng ^b   Fu, Xinmiao ^b   Chang, Zengyi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c XUZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899735499     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01473-14     Document Type: Article

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