Regulatory O2 tensions for the synthesis of fermentation products in Escherichia coli and relation to aerobic respiration

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 290-296

  Becker, Sabine ^a   Vlad, Dorina ^a   Schuster, Sylvia ^a   Pfeiffer, Peter ^a   Unden, Gottfried ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerobic respiration; ArcA; Escherichia coli; Facultative anaerobic metabolism; FNR; Mixed acid fermentation; O2; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; DIPROPHYLLINE; FORMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ARCA PROTEIN, E COLI; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DUROQUINOL OXIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FNR PROTEIN, E COLI; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; NITRATE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PYRUVATE FORMATE LYASE DEACTIVASE; PYRUVATE-FORMATE-LYASE-DEACTIVASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOREACTOR; COLIPHAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM;

ACETATES; AEROBIOSIS; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOREACTORS; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; FORMIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LACTATES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NITRATES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 0030609907     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050501     Document Type: Article

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