Physiological and cell morphology adaptation of Bacillus subtilis at near-zero specific growth rates: A transcriptome analysis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 346-363

  Overkamp, Wout ^a,b   Ercan, Onur ^b,c,d   Herber, Martijn ^a   van Maris, Antonius J A ^b,e   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^b,c,d   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KLUYVER CENTRE FOR GENOMICS OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

GLUCOSE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOMASS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOMASS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUCOSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84923697720     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12676     Document Type: Article

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