Coping with hyper-osmotic stress

Parent categories	4. Lifestyles 4.3. Coping with stress
Neighbouring categories	4.3.1. General stress proteins (controlled by SigB) 4.3.2. Cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, V, W, X, Y) 4.3.3. Acid stress proteins (controlled by YvrI-YvrHa) 4.3.4. Heat shock proteins 4.3.5. Cold stress proteins 4.3.6. Coping with hyper-osmotic stress 4.3.7. Coping with hypo-osmotic stress 4.3.8. Resistance against oxidative and electrophile stress 4.3.9. Resistance against other toxic compounds (nitric oxide, phenolic acids, flavonoids, oxalate) 4.3.10. Resistance against toxic metals 4.3.11. Resistance against toxins/ antibiotics 4.3.12. Biosynthesis of antibacterial compounds 4.3.13. Toxins, antitoxins and immunity against toxins
Related categories	none
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Genes in this functional category

• gbsA
• gbsB
• gbsR
• ktrA
• ktrB
• ktrC
• ktrD
• opuAA
• opuAB
• opuAC
• opuBA
• opuBB
• opuBC
• opuBD
• opuCA
• opuCB
• opuCC
• opuCD
• opuD
• opuE
• proH
• proJ

Reviews

Janet M Wood
Bacterial osmoregulation: a paradigm for the study of cellular homeostasis.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2011, 65;215-38
[PubMed:21663439] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Janet M Wood
Bacterial osmosensing transporters.
Methods Enzymol: 2007, 428;77-107
[PubMed:17875413] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Janet M Wood
Osmosensing by bacteria.
Sci STKE: 2006, 2006(357);pe43
[PubMed:17047223] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Bert Poolman, Jan J Spitzer, Janet M Wood
Bacterial osmosensing: roles of membrane structure and electrostatics in lipid-protein and protein-protein interactions.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 2004, 1666(1-2);88-104
[PubMed:15519310] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J M Wood, E Bremer, L N Csonka, R Kraemer, B Poolman, T van der Heide, L T Smith
Osmosensing and osmoregulatory compatible solute accumulation by bacteria.
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol: 2001, 130(3);437-60
[PubMed:11913457] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B Kempf, E Bremer
Uptake and synthesis of compatible solutes as microbial stress responses to high-osmolality environments.
Arch Microbiol: 1998, 170(5);319-30
[PubMed:9818351] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)