Syntrophic acetate-oxidizing microbes in methanogenic environments

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-127

  Hattori, Satoshi ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CO dehydrogenase acetyl CoA synthase pathway; Homoacetogen; Methanogenesis; Reverse acetogenesis; Syntrophic acetate oxidation

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 58549119451     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.23.118     Document Type: Review

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