Metabolic engineering of clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 for isopropanol-butanol-ethanol fermentation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1416-1423

  Lee, Joungmin ^a,b   Jang, Yu Sin ^a,c   Choi, Sung Jun ^a   Im, Jung Ae ^a   Song, Hyohak ^d   Cho, Jung Hee ^d   Seung, Do Young ^d   Terry Papoutsakis, E ^e   Bennett, George N ^f   Lee, Sang Yup ^a  

^a BioProcess Engineering Research Center   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c BioFuelChem   (South Korea)

^d GS Caltex Corporation   (South Korea)

^e University of Delaware   (United States)

^f RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BUTYRATE KINASE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; FORMATION PATHWAYS; GAS STRIPPING; IN-SITU; ISO-PROPANOLS;

ALCOHOLS; BIOFUELS; CELL ENGINEERING; CLOSTRIDIUM; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; FUEL ADDITIVES; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; STRIPPING (REMOVAL);

ACETONE;

2 PROPANOL; ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BIOFUEL; BUTANOL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACETONE; BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL; BIOREACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM;

2-PROPANOL; ACETONE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BIOFUELS; BUTANOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII;

EID: 84863120284     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06382-11     Document Type: Article

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