Chemostat cultivation and transcriptional analyses of Clostridium acetobutylicum mutants with defects in the acid and acetone biosynthetic pathways

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 9777-9794

  Hönicke, Daniel ^a   Lütke Eversloh, Tina ^b   Liu, Ziyong ^a,c   Lehmann, Dörte ^b   Liebl, Wolfgang ^a   Ehrenreich, Armin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biobutanol; Biofuel; Chemostat cultivation; ClosTron; DNA microarray

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BIOFUELS; CLOSTRIDIUM; DEFECTS; METABOLITES; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOBUTANOL; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRON; CONTINUOUS CULTIVATION; DNA MICRO-ARRAY; DNA MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGY; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS;

CHEMOSTATS;

ACETONE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMOSTAT; DNA; FERMENTATION; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM;

ACETOACETATE DECARBOXYLASE; ACETONE; BUTANOL; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CARBOXYLYASE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ACETONE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BUTANOLS; CARBOXY-LYASES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 84911806132     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6040-9     Document Type: Article

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