Truncation of peptide deformylase reduces the growth rate and stabilizes solvent production in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052.

doi:10.1128/AEM.64.5.1780-1785.1998

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Truncation of peptide deformylase reduces the growth rate and stabilizes solvent production in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052.

Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 1998

Evans V J, Liyanage H, Ravagnani A, Young M, Kashket E R

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The wild-type strain of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 tends to degenerate (i.e., lose the ability to form solvents) after prolonged periods of laboratory culture. Several Tn1545 mutants of this organism showing enhanced long-term stability of solvent production were isolated. Four of them h...

Topics

Amidohydrolases
Amino Acid Sequence
Aminopeptidases
Clostridium
DNA Transposable Elements
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Solvents

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