Metabolic Flux Analysis Elucidates the Importance of the Acid-Formation Pathways in Regulating Solvent Production by Clostridium acetobutylicum

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-213

  Desai, Ruchir P ^a   Harris, Latonia M ^a   Welker, Neil E ^b   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACID; BUTYRATE KINASE; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLOSTRIDIUM; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PH;

ACETIC ACID; ACIDS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BUTYRATES; CLOSTRIDIUM; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (CARBOXYL GROUP ACCEPTOR); SOLVENTS;

EID: 0033156380     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mben.1999.0118     Document Type: Article

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