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Construction and characterization of ack knock-out mutants of Propionibacterium acidipropionici for enhanced propionic acid fermentation.
Biotechnology and bioengineering - 5 Jun 2006
Suwannakham Supaporn, Huang Yan, Yang Shang-Tian
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Propionibacterium acidipropionici produces propionic acid from glucose with acetic acid, succinic acid, and CO2 as byproducts. In this work, inactivation of ack gene, encoding acetate kinase (AK), by gene disruption and integrational mutagenesis was studied as a method to reduce acetate formation in propionic acid fermentation. The partial ack gene of approximately 750 bp in P. acidipropionici was cloned using a...
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