Lipid remodelling is a widespread strategy in marine heterotrophic bacteria upon phosphorus deficiency

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 968-978

  Sebastián, Marta ^a   Smith, Alastair F ^b   González, José M ^c   Fredricks, Helen F ^d   Van Mooy, Benjamin ^d   Koblížek, Michal ^e   Brandsma, Joost ^f   Koster, Grielof ^f   Mestre, Mireia ^a   Mostajir, Behzad ^g   Pitta, Paraskevi ^h   Postle, Anthony D ^f   Sánchez, Pablo ^a   Gasol, Josep M ^a   Scanlan, David J ^b   Chen, Yin ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^h INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HETEROTROPHY; LIPID; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; RECOMBINATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIA; PHAEOBACTER;

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; HETEROTROPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOLIPASES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84946781193     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.172     Document Type: Article

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