| Literature DB >> 11881900 |
Daniela Billi1, Malcolm Potts.
Abstract
The removal of water through air drying damages membranes, proteins and nucleic acids and is lethal to the majority of organisms. Nevertheless, some vegetative cells of bacteria and cyanobacteria survive extreme desiccation. Understanding the mechanisms of their desiccation tolerance is an important issue in cell biology and holds promise for the metabolic engineering of desiccation-sensitive cells.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11881900 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2508(01)01279-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Res Microbiol ISSN: 0923-2508 Impact factor: 3.992