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Abstract
The membrane fatty acid composition of Escherichia coli becomes conditioned during periodic temperature cycling between 37 and 8 °C. After several cycles of temperature change, the bacteria become locked into a low-temperature physiology. Even after a prolonged incubation at high temperature the membrane fatty acid composition of conditioned cells was similar to that of cold-stressed cells.
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Keyword(s):
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C16 : 1, palmitoleic acid
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C17 : 0cyc, methylene hexadecanoic acid
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C18 : 1, cis-vaccenic acid
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SFA, saturated fatty acid
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UFA, unsaturated fatty acid
SGM