A Designed A. vinelandii-S. elongatus Coculture for Chemical Photoproduction from Air, Water, Phosphate, and Trace Metals

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 955-961

  Smith, Matthew J ^a   Francis, Matthew B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cyanobacteria; diazotroph; engineered coculture; metabolic syntrophy

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CARBON; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); SUCROSE; TRACE METAL; WATER; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; TRACE ELEMENT;

AIR; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNLIGHT; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

AIR; ALGINATES; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CARBON; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SUCROSE; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER;

EID: 84987904249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00107     Document Type: Article

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