First insights into the syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacteria - a genetic study

MicrobiologyOpen

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-53

  Müller, Bettina ^a   Sun, Li ^a   Schnürer, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

10 formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase; Acetogens; Hydrogen production; Methanogenesis; Syntrophic acetate oxidation; Wood Ljungdahl pathway

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMATE TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; SULFATE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; CLOSTRIDIUM ULTUNENSE; DNA ISOLATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FHS GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PRODUCT; GENE STRUCTURE; HETEROTROPH; LITHOTROPH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RNA ISOLATION; SYNTROPHACETICUS SCHINKII; SYNTROPHIC ACETATE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; TEPIDANAEROBACTER ACETATOXYDANS;

ACETATES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84897919890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.50     Document Type: Article

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