Sustainable biorefining in wastewater by engineered extreme alkaliphile Bacillus marmarensis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wernick, David G ^a   Pontrelli, Sammy P ^a   Pollock, Alexander W ^a   Liao, James C ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; WASTE WATER;

BACILLUS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FERMENTATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; WASTE WATER;

BACILLUS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84956672842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20224     Document Type: Article

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