Characterizing acetogenic metabolism using a genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of Clostridium ljungdahlii

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nagarajan, Harish ^a   Sahin, Merve ^a   Nogales, Juan ^a   Latif, Haythem ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^b   Ebrahim, Ali ^a   Zengler, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITRATE;

ACETOGENIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON FIXATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LJUNGDAHLII; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM LJUNGDAHLII;

ACETATES; BIOFUELS; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENOME; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS;

EID: 84888102796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-118     Document Type: Article

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