Isolation and molecular characterization of high-performance cellobiose- fermenting spontaneous mutants of ethanologenic Escherichia coli KO11 containing the Klebsiella oxytoca casAB operon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4633-4637

  Moniruzzaman, Mohammed ^a   Lai, Xiaokuang ^a   York, Sean W ^a   Ingram, Lonnie O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CELLOBIOSE; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; KLEBSIELLA; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPERON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0030833909     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.12.4633-4637.1997     Document Type: Article

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