Antisense RNA strategies for metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 936-945

  Desai, Ruchir P ^a   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; ACETONE; BUTANOL; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM;

EID: 0032986060     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.936-945.1999     Document Type: Article

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