Cloning, sequencing, and expression of clustered genes encoding β-hydroxybutyryl-coenzyme A (CoA) dehydrogenase, crotonase, and butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase from Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3015-3024

  Boynton, Zhuang L ^a   Bennett, George N ^a   Rudolph, Frederick B ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

3 HYDROXYBUTYRYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BUTYRYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; ENOYL COENZYME A HYDRATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

3-HYDROXYACYL COA DEHYDROGENASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTYRYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENOYL-COA HYDRATASE; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 0030059857     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.11.3015-3024.1996     Document Type: Article

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