Sugar utilization and its control in hyperthermophiles

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 201-205

  De Vos, Willem M ^a   Kengen, Serve W M ^a   Voorhorst, Wilfried G B ^a   Van der Oost, John ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Glycolysis; Hyperthermophiles; Laminarin; Pyrococcus furiosus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CULTURE MEDIUM; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE OXIDOREDUCTASE; GLYCOLYSIS; LAMINARAN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FERMENTATION; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GLYCOLYSIS; HEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

EID: 0032143498     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050061     Document Type: Review

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