Mpetredi Week 11

Mitchell Petredis

Week 11
[[http://jb.asm.org/content/188/21/7617.full.pdf+html Transcriptome Profiling Reveals the Importance of Plasmid pSymB

for Osmoadaptation of Sinorhizobium meliloti]]

minimal medium: a medium that contains only inorganic salts, a simple carbon source (as carbon dioxide or glucose), and water
- Source: [Merriam-Webster]
chaperone: any of a class of proteins (as heat shock proteins) that facilitate the proper folding of proteins by binding to and stabilizing unfolded or partially folded proteins
- Source: [Merriam-Webster]
filamentation: the anomalous growth of certain bacteria, such as E. coli, in which cells continue to elongate but do not divide (no septa formation)
- Source: [Wikipedia]
chemotaxis: orientation or movement of an organism or cell in relation to chemical agents
- Source: [Merriam-Webster]
sigma factor: a detachable polypeptide subunit of RNA polymerase that facilitates the initiation of transcription by recognizing specific DNA promoter sites
- Source: [Merriam-Webster]
periplasm: the region in a gram-negative bacterium between the plasma membrane and an outer surrounding membrane that contains especially enzymes and a thin layer of peptidoglycan
- Source: [Merriam-Webster]
downregulation: the process of reducing or suppressing a response to a stimulus; specifically : reduction in a cellular response to a molecule (as insulin) due to a decrease in the number of receptors on the cell surface
- Source: [Merriam-Webster]