Hydrogen is the central free intermediate during lignocellulose degradation by termite gut symbionts

ISME Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 551-565

  Pester, Michael ^a   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrogen turnover; Metabolite fluxes; Methanogenesis; Quantitative degradation model; Reductive acetogenesis; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; METHANE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ISOPTERA; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; FORMIC ACIDS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYDROGEN; ISOPTERA; ISOTOPE LABELING; LACTIC ACID; LIGNIN; METHANE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOISOTOPES; SYMBIOSIS;

CRYPTOTERMES SECUNDUS; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SANTONENSIS; ZOOTERMOPSIS NEVADENSIS;

EID: 34948874234     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2007.62     Document Type: Article

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