Production of a functional cell wall-anchored minicellulosome by recombinant Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Willson, Benjamin J ^a   Kovács, Katalin ^a   Wilding Steele, Tom ^a   Markus, Robert ^b   Winzer, Klaus ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellulosome; Clostridium acetobutylicum; Consolidated bioprocessing; Scaffoldin; Sortase anchoring

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLULOSE; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENZYMES; FERMENTATION; FOSSIL FUELS; GENES; GLOBAL WARMING; LIGNIN; STRAIN;

CELLULOSOMES; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CONSOLIDATED BIO-PROCESSING; SCAFFOLDIN; SORTASE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

BACTERIUM; ENZYME; FERMENTATION; GENE; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84969785089     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-016-0526-x     Document Type: Article

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