L-alanine production from glucose fermentation by hyperthermophilic members of the domains bacteria and archaea: A remnant of an ancestral metabolism?

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2657-2659

  Ravot, Gilles ^a   Ollivier, Bernard ^a   Fardeau, Marie Laure ^a   Patel, Bharat K C ^b   Andrews, Kathy T ^b   Magot, Michel ^c   Garcia, Jean Louis ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLUCOSE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; THERMOCOCCUS PROFUNDUS; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 0029987676     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2657-2659.1996     Document Type: Article

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