Truncation of peptide deformylase reduces the growth rate and stabilizes solvent production in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1780-1785

  Evans, Victoria J ^a   Liyanage, Hemachandra ^b   Ravagnani, Adriana ^a   Young, Michael ^a   Kashket, Eva R ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE DEFORMYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0031859859     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.5.1780-1785.1998     Document Type: Article

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