Effect of an oxygen-tolerant bifurcating butyryl coenzyme a dehydrogenase/electron-transferring flavoprotein complex from clostridium difficile on butyrate production in escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3704-3713

  Aboulnaga, El Hussiny ^a,c   Pinkenburg, Olaf ^b   Schiffels, Johannes ^a   El Refai, Ahmed ^c   Buckel, Wolfgang ^b,d   Selmer, Thorsten ^a  

^a AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; BUTYRYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; COENZYME A; ELECTRON TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEIN; FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUTYRATES; BUTYRYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ELECTRON-TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OXYGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84881014249     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00321-13     Document Type: Article

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