Organic acid excretion in Penicillium ochrochloron increases with ambient pH

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Vrabl, Pamela ^a   Fuchs, Viktoria ^a   Pichler, Barbara ^a   Schinagl, Christoph W ^a   Burgstaller, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggressive acidification; Ambient pH; Bioreactor batch culture; Charge balance; Chemostat; Neurospora crassa; Organic acids; Overflow metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875654194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00121     Document Type: Article

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