Metabolic properties of Eubacterium pyruvativorans, a ruminal 'hyper-ammonia-producing' anaerobe with metabolic properties analogous to those of Clostridium kluyveri

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2921-2930

  Wallace, R John ^a   Chaudhary, Lal C ^a   Miyagawa, Eiichi ^a,b   McKain, N ^a   Walker, Nicola D ^a,c  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALANINE; ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ASPARTIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CASEIN HYDROLYSATE; CROTONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; HEXANOIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; LEUCINE; PANCREAS ENZYME; PROLINE; PROPIONIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; SERINE; THREONINE; VALERIC ACID; VINYL ACETATE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM PYRUVATIVORANS; FERMENTATION MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALANINE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CASEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CROTONIC ACIDS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EUBACTERIUM; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FERMENTATION; GLYCINE; LACTIC ACID; LEUCINE; PEPTIDES; PROLINE; PYRUVIC ACID; RUMEN; SERINE; THREONINE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI; EUBACTERIUM PYRUVATIVORANS;

EID: 4844228104     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27190-0     Document Type: Article

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