Detection of active, potentially acetate-oxidizing syntrophs in an anaerobic digester by flux measurement and formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase (FTHFS) expression profiling

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1980-1989

  Hori, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Sasaki, Daisuke ^a   Haruta, Shin ^a,c   Shigematsu, Toru ^d   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^e   Ishii, Masaharu ^a   Igarashi, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e KAJIMA TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATE TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; SYNTROPHIN; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METHANOGEN; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA FINGERPRINTING; THERMACETOGENIUM PHAEUM; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ACETATES; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FORMATE-TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMOANAEROBACTER;

ARCHAEA; THERMACETOGENIUM PHAEUM;

EID: 79959969124     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.049189-0     Document Type: Article

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