Anaerobic respiration in engineered Escherichia coli with an internal electron acceptor to produce fuel ethanol

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1125, Issue , 2008, Pages 363-372

  Peterson, Joy Doran ^a   Ingram, Lonnie O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Ethanol; Hemicellulose hydrolysate; Residues

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CELLULASE; FUEL; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC RESPIRATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOCATALYST; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 41349109345     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1419.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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