Exploiting microbial hyperthermophilicity to produce an industrial chemical, using hydrogen and carbon dioxide

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5840-5845

  Keller, Matthew W ^a   Schut, Gerrit J ^a   Lipscomb, Gina L ^a   Menon, Angeli L ^a   Iwuchukwu, Ifeyinwa J ^a   Leuko, Therese T ^a   Thorgersen, Michael P ^a   Nixon, William J ^a   Hawkins, Aaron S ^b   Kelly, Robert M ^b   Adams, Michael W W ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobe; Archaea; Biotechnology; Metabolic engineering; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDRACRYLIC ACID; HYDROGEN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; GASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROGEN; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; LACTIC ACID; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

EID: 84876029446     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222607110     Document Type: Article

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