The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

Recently, it has been discovered that many microorganisms previously thought to be light-independent actually make use of sunlight for growth and survival. Newly reported work suggests some of the specific mechanisms involved.

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Autores principales: DeLong, Edward F., Béjà, Oded
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20436957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000359
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spelling pubmed-28604902010-04-30 The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times DeLong, Edward F. Béjà, Oded PLoS Biol Primer Recently, it has been discovered that many microorganisms previously thought to be light-independent actually make use of sunlight for growth and survival. Newly reported work suggests some of the specific mechanisms involved. Public Library of Science 2010-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2860490/ /pubmed/20436957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000359 Text en DeLong, Béjà. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times
title The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times
title_full The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times
title_fullStr The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times
title_full_unstemmed The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times
title_short The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times
title_sort light-driven proton pump proteorhodopsin enhances bacterial survival during tough times
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20436957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000359
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