Genetic manipulation of acid and solvent formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 58, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 215-221

  Green, Edward M ^a,b   Bennett, George N ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Butanol; Butyrate; Complementation; Vector

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ALCOHOLS; ALDEHYDES; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COLIFORM BACTERIA; ENZYMES; GROWTH KINETICS; SOLVENTS;

BUTANOL; BUTYRATE;

CLONING;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032485873     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19980420)58:2/3<215::AID-BIT14>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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