Genome-guided analysis of physiological and morphological traits of the fermentative acetate oxidizer Thermacetogenium phaeum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Oehler, Dirk ^a   Poehlein, Anja ^b   Leimbach, Andreas ^b   Müller, Nicolai ^a,c   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^b   Schink, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGENASE; MENAQUINONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERMENTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; METHANOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMACETOGENIUM PHAEUM; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ACETATES; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FERMENTATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GRAM-POSITIVE ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACETOBACTERIUM WOODII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM LJUNGDAHLII; MOORELLA THERMOACETICA; THERMACETOGENIUM PHAEUM;

EID: 84872654948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-723     Document Type: Article

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