Cold‐shock Response in Microorganisms

Wolfgang Schumann, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Masayori Inouye, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, USA
Sangita Phadtare, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, USA

Published online: September 2008

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003560.pub2

Several species of bacteria are capable of mounting what is known as the cold-shock response. This is induced upon a sudden decrease in external temperature and results in the transiently enhanced synthesis of a set of proteins, termed cold-shock proteins, which allow the bacteria to adapt to low temperature.

Keywords: membrane fluidity; cold shock; RNA chaperone; Csp family

Figure 1. A schematic model of the cold-shock response pathway based on the ribosomes as the temperature sensors.
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Schumann, Wolfgang, Inouye, Masayori, and Phadtare, Sangita(Sep 2008) Cold‐shock Response in Microorganisms. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003560.pub2]