Systems-level metabolic flux profiling elucidates a complete, bifurcated tricarboxylic acid cycle in Clostridium acetobutylicum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4452-4461

  Amador Noguez, Daniel ^a   Feng, Xiao Jiang ^a   Fan, Jing ^a   Roquet, Nathaniel ^a   Rabitz, Herschel ^a   Rabinowitz, Joshua D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; BIOFUEL; BUTANOL; CITRIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; MALIC ACID; OXALOACETIC ACID; PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; SUCCINIC ACID; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; ALPHA-KETOGLUTARIC ACID; CARBON; GLUCOSE; PYRUVIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DECARBOXYLATION; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BUTANOLS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PYRUVATES; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 77956511890     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00490-10     Document Type: Article

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