Pleiotropic functions of catabolite control protein CcpA in Butanol-producing Clostridium acetobutylicum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ren, Cong ^a   Gu, Yang ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Zhang, Weiwen ^b   Yang, Chen ^a   Yang, Sheng ^a,c   Jiang, Weihong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Research and Development Center of Industrial Biotechnology   (China)

Author keywords

Acidogenesis and solventogenesis; CcpA; Pleiotropic regulator; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; BUTANOL; CARBON; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; DNA; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SOLVENT; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUTANOLS; CARBON; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GLUCOSE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME; XYLOSE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84864347429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-349     Document Type: Article

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