Adaptive responses to oxygen stress in obligatory anaerobes Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium aminovalericum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8442-8450

  Kawasaki, Shinji ^a   Watamura, Yusuke ^a   Ono, Masaki ^a   Watanabe, Toshihiro ^a   Takeda, Kouji ^a   Niimura, Youichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEINS;

ADAPTIVE RESPONSES; GENE ENCODING; MICROOXIC STATE; OXYGEN STRESS;

BACTERIA;

DESULFOFERRODOXIN; FERREDOXIN; FERRITIN; FLAVOPROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MERR PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; RUBREDOXIN; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM AMINOVALERICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE NOXA; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM AMINOVALERICUM;

EID: 29144523114     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8442-8450.2005     Document Type: Article

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