Electron bifurcation involved in the energy metabolism of the acetogenic bacterium Moorella thermoacetica growing on glucose or H2 plus CO2

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3689-3699

  Huang, Haiyan ^a   Wang, Shuning ^a,b   Moll, Johanna ^a   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE DEHYDROGENASE; CELL EXTRACT; FERREDOXIN; FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVOPROTEIN; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEXOSE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; METHYLENE H4F DEHYDROGENASE; NFNA PROTEIN; NFNB PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATALYSIS; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; MOORELLA THERMOACETICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRONS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOORELLA; OXIDOREDUCTASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOORELLA THERMOACETICA;

EID: 84864008626     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00385-12     Document Type: Article

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