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Enzymology of Acetone-Butanol-Isopropanol Formation Progress Report: 1992

Description: Our research primarily involves Clostridium which is a species containing strains with the rare ability To produce the useful chemical isopropanol, in addition to acetone, butanol and ethanol. In related studies, we also included another solvent-producing organism, and Bacillus macerans, which is a facultative anaerobe and produces a high level of acetone and ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Because B. macerans does not produce butyric ac id or butanol, it provides a simpler system for the s… more
Date: January 1, 1993
Creator: Chen, Jiann-Shin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enzymology of acetone-butanol-isopropanol formation. Progress report, January 1, 1991--December 31, 1991

Description: The long-term goal of the project is to understand the fundamental properties of biological solvent production. Our approach is to elucidate first the molecular properties of solvent-producing enzymes and then to apply to information gained from the enzymological study to investigate control mechanisms for the solvent-producing pathways and the expression of solvent-production genes. Our research primarily involves two strains of Clostridium beijerinckii: C. Beijerinckii NRRL B593 which produce… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Chen, Jiann-Shin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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