Laboratory evolution of Geobacter sulfurreducens for enhanced growth on lactate via a single-base-pair substitution in a transcriptional regulator

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 975-983

  Summers, Zarath M ^a   Ueki, Toshiyuki ^a   Ismail, Wael ^b   Haveman, Shelley A ^c   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

^c Luca Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

evolution; genome sequencing; geobacter; subsurface

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GROUND WATER; LACTIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTATION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMORPHISM; SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOREMEDIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOBACTER; GROUNDWATER; LACTIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SP.; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 84859911840     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.166     Document Type: Article

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