Regulation of the sol locus genes for butanol and acetone formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 by a putative transcriptional repressor

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 319-330

  Nair, Ramesh V ^a,c   Green, Edward M ^b   Watson, David E ^b   Bennett, George N ^b   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BUTANOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

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

EID: 0032934363     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.1.319-330.1999     Document Type: Article

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