The genome of Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans strain UI provides new insights for syntrophic aromatic compound metabolism and electron flow

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4861-4872

  Nobu, Masaru K ^a   Narihiro, Takashi ^a,b   Hideyuki, Tamaki ^a,b   Qiu, Yan Ling ^b   Sekiguchi, Yuji ^c   Woyke, Tanja ^d   Goodwin, Lynne ^e   Davenport, Karen W ^e   Kamagata, Yoichi ^b,f   Liu, Wen Tso ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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

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

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLYASE; FERREDOXIN; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HETERODISULFIDE REDUCTASE; HYDROGENASE; LYASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENOL;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CARBON-CARBON LYASES; CARBOXY-LYASES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; FERREDOXINS; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; FORMATES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOL;

EID: 84955719113     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12444     Document Type: Article

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