Biotransformation of monoterpenes, bile acids, and other isoprenoids in anaerobic ecosystems

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 475-488

  Hylemon, P B ^a   Harder, J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 Dehydroxylation; Cholesterol; Intestinal bacteria

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLIC ACID; CINEOLE; ISOPRENOID; LINALOOL; MENTHOL; TERPENE;

ALCALIGENES; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DENITRIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GENE; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; TERPENES;

ALCALIGENES DEFRAGRANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM SP.; THAUERA; UNCULTURED BETA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0032457071     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00027-8     Document Type: Article

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