Physiological and transcriptomic analyses of the thermophilic, aceticlastic methanogen Methanosaeta thermophila responding to ammonia stress

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 162-167

  Kato, Souichiro ^a,b,c   Sasaki, Konomi ^a,d   Watanabe, Kazuya ^c,e   Yumoto, Isao ^a   Kamagata, Yoichi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Hokkaido High Technology College   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia stress; Methanogenesis; Methanosaeta thermophila; Syntrophic acetate oxidation; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; METHANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIUM; COCULTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHANOSARCINALES; PH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACETATES; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METHANE; METHANOSARCINALES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84904550975     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME14021     Document Type: Article

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