Genetic manipulation of acid formation pathways by gene inactivation in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2079-2086

  Green, Edward M ^a   Boynton, Zhuang L ^a   Harris, Latonia M ^b   Rudolph, Frederick B ^a   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^b   Bennett, George N ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid biosynthesis; Clostridium acetobutylicum; Gene integration; Metabolic engineering; Solvent biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824;

EID: 0029846031     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-8-2079     Document Type: Article

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