Intracellular pH response to weak acid stress in individual vegetative Bacillus subtilis cells

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 6463-6471

  Pandey, Rachna ^a   Vischer, Norbert O E ^a   Smelt, Jan P P M ^a   van Beilen, Johan W A ^a   Beek, Alexander Ter ^a   De Vos, Winnok H ^b,c   Brul, Stanley ^a   Manders, Erik M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELLS; FOOD PRESERVATION; GROWTH KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; POTASSIUM SORBATE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS CELLS; INTRACELLULAR PH; POPULATION SURVIVAL; POTASSIUM ACETATE; PRESERVATION STRATEGIES; SINGLE-CELL LEVEL; TIME-RESOLVED ANALYSIS;

CYTOLOGY;

ACIDITY; BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; GENERATION TIME; HETEROGENEITY; HOMEOSTASIS; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POTASSIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACETIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHLUORIN; SORBIC ACID;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD PRESERVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CYTOPLASM; DERMATITIS, PHOTOTOXIC; FOOD PRESERVATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM ACETATE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SORBIC ACID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84993212417     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02063-16     Document Type: Article

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