Characterization of recombinant strains of the Clostridium acetobutylicum butyrate kinase inactivation mutant: Need for new phenomenological models for solventogenesis and butanol inhibition?

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

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

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AAD; Butyrate kinase; Clostridium acetobutylicum; Flux analysis; Metabolic engineering; Solvents

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; CATALYST DEACTIVATION; ENZYMES; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM; SOLVENTS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SOLVENTOGENESIS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FERMENTATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN;

1-BUTANOL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (CARBOXYL GROUP ACCEPTOR); SOLVENTS;

EID: 0034606690     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(20000105)67:1<1::AID-BIT1>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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