Acetogenesis from H2 plus CO2and nitrogen fixation by an endosymbiotic spirochete of a termite-gut cellulolytic protist

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10224-10230

  Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,b   Noda, Satoko ^a,c   Hattori, Satoshi ^d   Iida, Toshiya ^a   Yuki, Masahiro ^b   Starns, David ^a,e   Inoue, Jun Ichi ^a   Darby, Alistair C ^e   Hongoh, Yuichi ^a,f  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^b Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Endosymbiosis; Metabolic interaction; Single cell genomics; Spirochetes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; ACETIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENERGY; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOESTEDTI; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENOME; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EUCOMONYMPHA; EUKARYOTA; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOESTEDTI; ISOPTERA; PROTISTA; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA;

ACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTESTINES; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPIROCHAETALES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84939864399     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423979112     Document Type: Article

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