Engineering hydrogen gas production from formate in a hyperthermophile by heterologous production of an 18-subunit membrane-bound complex

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2873-2879

  Lipscomb, Gina L ^a   Schut, Gerrit J ^a   Thorgersen, Michael P ^a   Nixon, William J ^a   Kelly, Robert M ^b   Adams, Michael W W ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FORMATE-HYDROGEN LYASE; HETEROLOGOUS PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; OPTIMUM GROWTH TEMPERATURE; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

CHROMOSOMES; GENE ENCODING; SUGARS;

BIOFUELS;

CARBOHYDRATE; DNA FRAGMENT; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS ONNURINEUS;

ARCHAEA; ENZYMES; GENETICS; HYDROGEN; HYPERTHERMOPHILES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOFUELS; FORMATES; GASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OPERON; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; THERMOCOCCUS;

EID: 84893454556     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.530725     Document Type: Article

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