Metabolic adaptations of Azospirillum brasilense to oxygen stress by cell-to-cell clumping and flocculation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 8346-8357

  Bible, Amber N ^a,b   Khalsa Moyers, Gurusahai K ^a,b   Mukherjee, Tanmoy ^a   Green, Calvin S ^a   Mishra, Priyanka ^a   Purcell, Alicia ^a   Aksenova, Anastasia ^a   Hurst, Gregory B ^a,b   Alexandre, Gladys ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CARBON; CELLS; ELASTICITY; FLOCCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CELL-TO-CELL INTERACTIONS; METABOLIC ADAPTATION; MICROAEROPHILIC BACTERIA; NITROGEN FIXATION GENES; NITROGEN LIMITATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM;

CYTOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; FLOCCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXYGEN; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; FLOCCULATION; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLOCCULATION; OXYGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84949642859     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02782-15     Document Type: Article

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