Catabolic pathway for the production of skatole and indoleacetic acid by the acetogen Clostridium drakei, Clostridium scatologenes, and swine manure

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1950-1953

  Whitehead, Terence R ^a,c   Price, Neil P ^a   Drake, Harold L ^b   Cotta, Michael A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GENES; MANURES;

CATABOLIC PATHWAY; SKATOLE;

ACETIC ACID;

DEUTERIUM; INDOLEACETIC ACID; SKATOLE; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIUM; CATABOLISM; DEUTERIUM; HORMONE; MANURE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDATION; PIG;

ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DRAKEI; CLOSTRIDIUM SCACTOLOGENES; ISOTOPE LABELING; MANURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SWINE; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MANURE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SKATOLE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SWINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DRAKEI; CLOSTRIDIUM SCATOLOGENES; SUIDAE;

EID: 40849111497     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02458-07     Document Type: Article

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