Metabolic analysis of Escherichia coli in the presence and absence of the carboxylating enzymes phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and pyruvate carboxylase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1844-1850

  Gokarn, R R ^a,b   Eiteman, M A ^a   Altman, E ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b CARGILL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PLASMIDS; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; RHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 0034019872     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.1844-1850.2000     Document Type: Article

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