Lack of protective osmolytes limits final cell density and volumetric productivity of ethanologenic Eschegchia coli KO11 during xylose fermentation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2734-2740

  Underwood, S A ^a   Buszko, M L ^a   Shanmugam, K T ^a   Ingram, L O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; METABOLITES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSMOSIS;

CARBON SKELETONS; VOLUMETRIC PRODUCTIVITY;

CELLS;

ACETIC ACID; BETAINE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MINERAL; PROLINE; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACKA GENE; ADAPTATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CITZ GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOLOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI KO11; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL DENSITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; VOLUMETRY;

BETAINE; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUTAMIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SULFONIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; XYLOSE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 2442703255     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.2734-2740.2004     Document Type: Article

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