Growth- and substrate-dependent transcription of formate dehydrogenase and hydrogenase coding genes in Syntrophobacter fumaroxidans and Methanospirillum hungatei

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 280-289

  Worm, Petra ^a   Stams, Alfons J M ^a   Cheng, Xu ^a   Plugge, Caroline M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FERREDOXIN; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYTOPLASM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; METHANOSPIRILLUM HUNGATEI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNTROPHOBACTER FUMAROXIDANS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FERREDOXINS; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; FORMIC ACIDS; FURANS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METHANOSPIRILLUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NAD; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

METHANOSPIRILLUM HUNGATEI; SYNTROPHOBACTER FUMAROXIDANS;

EID: 78650720286     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.043927-0     Document Type: Article

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