Pyruvate formate-lyase enables efficient growth of Escherichia coli on acetate and formate

Biochemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 2423-2426

  Zelcbuch, Lior ^a   Lindner, Steffen N ^b   Zegman, Yonatan ^a   Slutskin, Ilya Vainberg ^a   Antonovsky, Niv ^a   Gleizer, Shmuel ^a   Milo, Ron ^a   Bar Even, Arren ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ACETYL-COA; CARBON LABELING EXPERIMENTS; GLYOXYLATE; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MUTANT STRAIN; PYRUVATE FORMATE LYASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; FORMIC ACID; GLYOXYLIC ACID; LYASE; PYRUVATE FORMATE LYASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ACETYL COENZYME A; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FORMATE C-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ACETATES; ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANAEROBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FORMATES;

EID: 84969263623     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00184     Document Type: Article

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