Industrial Robustness: Understanding the Mechanism of Tolerance for the Populus Hydrolysate-Tolerant Mutant Strain of Clostridium thermocellum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Linville, Jessica L ^a,b   Rodriguez Jr , Miguel ^b   Land, Miriam ^b   Syed, Mustafa H ^b   Engle, Nancy L ^b   Tschaplinski, Timothy J ^b   Mielenz, Jonathan R ^b   Cox, Chris D ^a,b,c  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; CODON; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA REPAIR; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERMENTATION; GAS ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULUS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HYDROGEN; HYDROLYSIS; MUTATION; POPULUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84886938785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078829     Document Type: Article

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