Aromatic inhibitors derived from ammonia-pretreated lignocellulose hinder bacterial ethanologenesis by activating regulatory circuits controlling inhibitor efflux and detoxification

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Keating, David H ^a   Zhang, Yaoping ^a   Ong, Irene M ^a   McIlwain, Sean ^a   Morales, Eduardo H ^a,b   Grass, Jeffrey A ^a   Tremaine, Mary ^a   Bothfeld, William ^a   Higbee, Alan ^a   Ulbrich, Arne ^a   Balloon, Allison J ^a   Westphall, Michael S ^a,b   Aldrich, Josh ^c   Lipton, Mary S ^c   Kim, Joonhoon ^a,d   Moskvin, Oleg V ^a   Bukhman, Yury V ^a   Coon, Joshua J ^a,b   Kiley, Patricia J ^a,b   Bates, Donna M ^a   Landick, Robert ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic inhibitors; Biofuels; Escherichia coli; Ethanol; Lignocellulosic hydrolysate; Proteomics; RNAseq; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; LIGNOCELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS CONVERSION; DETOXIFICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84987841758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00402     Document Type: Article

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