Carbohydrate metabolism in Zymomonas mobilis: A catabolic highway with some scenic routes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 301-307

  Sprenger, Georg A ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon flux; Entner Doudoroff pathway; ethanol; glucose facilitator; glucose fructose oxidoreductase; metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBON; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SORBITOL; SUCROSE;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0030589557     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00396-5     Document Type: Short Survey

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