Escherichia coli acid resistance: Tales of an amateur acidophile

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 898-907

  Foster, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPORTER; ARGININE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORIDE ION; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ACIDITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL DAMAGE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL PH; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTESTINE FLORA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STOMACH PH;

ACIDS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTIPORTERS; ARGININE; CHLORIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 9444285788     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1021     Document Type: Review

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