Expression of a cloned cyclopropane fatty acid synthase gene reduces solvent formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2831-2841

  Zhao, Yinsuo ^a   Hindorff, Lucia A ^a   Chuang, Amy ^a   Monroe Augustus, Melanie ^a   Lyristis, Michael ^a   Harrison, Mary L ^a   Rudolph, Frederick B ^a   Bennett, George N ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; PH EFFECTS;

SOLVENT STRESS;

FATTY ACIDS;

ACETIC ACID; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID; CYCLOPROPANE; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SOLVENT;

FATTY ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACID TOLERANCE; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL LEVEL; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME; GROWTH RATE; HOST; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID STORAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

1-PROPANOL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUTANOLS; BUTYRIC ACID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; CYCLOPROPANES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KINETICS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (CARBOXYL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037545467     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2831-2841.2003     Document Type: Article

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