Comparison of transcriptional profiles of Clostridium thermocellum grown on cellobiose and pretreated yellow poplar using RNA-seq

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Wei, Hui ^a   Fu, Yan ^b,c   Magnusson, Lauren ^a   Baker, John O ^a   Maness, Pin Ching ^a   Xu, Qi ^a   Yang, Shihui ^a   Bowersox, Andrew ^a   Bogorad, Igor ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Tucker, Melvin P ^a   Himmel, Michael E ^a   Ding, Shi You ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellobiose; Cellulosome; Clostridium thermocellum; Ethanol; Hydrogen; Pretreated yellow poplar (pyp); Rna seq; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CARBON; CELLOBIOSE; CELLULASE; CELLULOSOME; FERREDOXIN; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; HEMICELLULOSE; HYDROGEN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS FERMENTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH CURVE; MRNA EXPRESSION ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TULIP; YELLOW POPLAR;

EID: 84899694531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00142     Document Type: Article

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