Alternative acetate production pathways in chlamydomonas reinhardtii during dark anoxia and the dominant role of chloroplasts in fermentative acetate production

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4499-4518

  Yang, Wenqiang ^a   Catalanotti, Claudia ^a   D’adamo, Sarah ^b   Wittkopp, Tyler M ^a,c   Ingram Smith, Cheryl J ^d   Mackinder, Luke ^a   Miller, Tarryn E ^b   Heuberger, Adam L ^e   Peers, Graham ^e   Smith, Kerry S ^d   Jonikas, Martin C ^a   Grossman, Arthur R ^a   Posewitz, Matthew C ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

ACETATE KINASE; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALGAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION;

ACETATE KINASE; ACETATES; ALGAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; FERMENTATION; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 84919816924     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.129965     Document Type: Article

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