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ReviewExtremophiles : life under extreme conditions2012

Bacterial gene expression at low temperatures.

J T Trevors, A K Bej, N Mojib, J D van Elsas, L Van Overbeek

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Review in Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. LeveragingFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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  4. Adaptation of the Marine BacteriumInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  5. Comparative Survival and the Cold-Induced Gene Expression of Pathogenic and NonpathogenicInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

J T TrevorsLaboratory of Microbiology, School of Environmental Sciences, Rm. 3220 Bovey Bldg., University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. jtrevors@uoguelph.ca
A K Bej
N Mojib
J D van Elsas
L Van Overbeek

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under suboptimal environmental conditions such as low temperatures, many bacteria have an extended lag phase, altered cell structures, and composition such as a less fluid (more rigid) and leaky cytoplasmic membrane. As a result, cells may die, enter into a starvation mode of metabolism or a physiologically viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. In the latter state, the amount of gene expression per cell is virtually undetectable. In this article, gene expression under (suboptimal) low temperature conditions in non-psychrophilic environmental bacteria is examined. The pros and cons of some of the molecular methodologies for gene expression analysis are also discussed.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialAmino Acid SequenceAntarctic RegionsAntifreeze ProteinsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsCold TemperatureElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalFreezingMicrobial ViabilityMolecular Sequence DataOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSequence Homology, Amino AcidAntifreeze ProteinsBacterial Proteins

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