Carbon metabolism in microorganisms of biomedical and biotechnological interest: The Entner-Doudoroff pathway;Metabolismo del carbono en microorganismos de interés biomédico y biotecnológico: Vía de Entner-Doudoroff

Biotecnologia Aplicada

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-94

  Ortega, Adrián Mauricio García ^a   Rivas, Elizabeth Ponce ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Entner doudoroff pathway; Escherichia coli; Metabolism; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Zymomonas mobilis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149132440     PISSN: 08644551     EISSN: 10272852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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