title: Unusual water flux in the extracellular polysaccharide of the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune.
abstract: The speed of water uptake by desiccated Nostoc commune was found to depend upon the duration of desiccation. The rehydration of desiccated colonies led to marked, time-dependent changes in structure and ultrastructure and fluctuations in the composition of the transcriptome. Physical evaporative water loss is an active process that was influenced by inhibitors of transcription and translation.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Tech Center for Genomics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Donna R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brittain
authors.forename: Debbie J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Täuber
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marand
authors.forename: Richard F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Helm
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Potts
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D017931:DNA Primers; D003890:Desiccation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D007700:Kinetics; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D014867:Water