Plasmids of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria and their role in adaptation to cold environments

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Dziewit, Lukasz ^a   Bartosik, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cold adaptation; Cold environment; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmid; Psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CADMIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COBALT; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; COPPER; LIPID; MERCURY; METALLOID; NAPHTHALENE; NICKEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VIRGINIAMYCIN; ZINC;

ALIIVIBRIO SALMONICIDA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS WEIHENSTEPHANENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CARNOBACTERIUM; CELL MOTILITY; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PSYCHROBACTER; PSYCHROPHILIC BACTERIUM; PSYCHROTOLERANT BACTERIA; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPLICON; SHEWANELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84924243810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00596     Document Type: Article

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