Targeted mutagenesis of the Clostridium acetobutylicum acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation pathway

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 630-641

  Cooksley, Clare M ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a   Wang, Hengzheng ^a   Redl, Stephanie ^a,c   Winzer, Klaus ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Otolaryngology   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetate kinase; Acetoacetate decarboxylase; Alcohol aldehyde dehydrogenases; Butanol dehydrogenases; CAP0059; Clostridium; ClosTron; CoA transferase; Phosphotransbutyrylase; Thiolase

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; CAP0059; CLOSTRON; COA TRANSFERASE; DECARBOXYLASES; PHOSPHOTRANSBUTYRYLASE; THIOLASE;

ACETONE; ALCOHOLS; BATCH CELL CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENZYMES; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MUTAGENESIS; SOLVENTS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; BUTANOL;

ACETATE KINASE GENE; ACETOACETATE DECARBOXYLASE GENE; ALCOHOL ALDEHYDEDEHYDROGENASE 1 GENE; ALCOHOL ALDEHYDEDEHYDROGENASE 2 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BUTANOL DEHYDROGENASE A GENE; BUTANOL DEHYDROGENASE B GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; COA TRANSFERASE A GENE; COA TRANSFERASE B GENE; FERMENTATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSBUTYRYLASE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETONE; BUTANOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824;

EID: 84869014233     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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