Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Desiccation

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<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Cold">Cold</a></li>
<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Cold">Cold</a></li>
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<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Heat">Heat</a></li>
 
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Desiccation</a></li>
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Desiccation</a></li>
<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Radiation">Radiation</a></li>
<li><a href="/Team:Stanford-Brown/HellCell/Radiation">Radiation</a></li>

Revision as of 08:12, 1 October 2012


Desiccation

Escherichia coli
The same betaine pathway that we are using in cold is supposed to help confer desiccation resistance. We are also investigating a pathway that produces trehalose, a nutrient that is found in many halophiles and is purported to protect against desiccation.