The genes for butanol and acetone formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 reside on a large plasmid whose loss leads to degeneration of the strain

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5442-5447

  Cornillot, Emmanuel ^a   Nair, Ramesh V ^b,c   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^b   Soucaille, Philippe ^a  

^a INSA   (France)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BUTANOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DEGENERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824;

EID: 0030922888     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.17.5442-5447.1997     Document Type: Article

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