Extremely thermophilic microorganisms as metabolic engineering platforms for production of fuels and industrial chemicals

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Zeldes, Benjamin M ^a   Keller, Matthew W ^b   Loder, Andrew J ^a   Straub, Christopher T ^a   Adams, Michael W W ^b   Kelly, Robert M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio based chemicals; Biotechnology; Extreme thermophiles; Genetics; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CALDICELLULOSIRUPTOR BESCII; CARBON FIXATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; METAGENOME; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS; THERMOANAEROBACTER MATHRANII; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARENSIS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOTOGA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84949803390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01209     Document Type: Review

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