Redirection of metabolism for biological hydrogen production

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1665-1671

  Rey, Federico E ^a,b   Heiniger, Erin K ^a   Harwood, Caroline S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ENZYMES; GENES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NITROGEN FIXATION;

MOLECULAR HYDROGEN; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSES;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMMONIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEOME; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 33947219284     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02565-06     Document Type: Article

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