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Bacteriophage infections in the industrial acetone butanol (AB) fermentation processD T Jones
Department of Microbiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2:21-6. 2000..This phage infected Clostridium beijerinckii P260 and a number of closely related industrial strains...
Butanol fermentation research: upstream and downstream manipulationsThaddeus C Ezeji
University of Illinois, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Group, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, 1207 W Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Chem Rec 4:305-14. 2004..reference to the history of acetone-butanol fermentation, genetic manipulation of the butanol-producing Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052, as well as upstream and downstream processing...
Butanol production from wheat straw hydrolysate using Clostridium beijerinckiiNasib Qureshi
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Fermentation Biotechnology Research Unit, 1815 N University Street, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 30:419-27. 2007..acetone butanol ethanol or ABE) was produced from wheat straw hydrolysate (WSH) in batch cultures using Clostridium beijerinckii P260. In control fermentation 48.9 g L(-1) glucose (initial sugar 62.0 g L(-1)) was used to produce 20...
Transcriptional analysis of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 and the hyper-butanol-producing mutant BA101 during the shift from acidogenesis to solventogenesisZhen Shi
Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:7709-14. 2008b>Clostridium beijerinckii is an anaerobic bacterium used for the fermentative production of acetone and butanol. The recent availability of genomic sequence information for C...
Butanol production from agricultural residues: Impact of degradation products on Clostridium beijerinckii growth and butanol fermentationThaddeus Ezeji
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Group, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois 1207 W Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Biotechnol Bioeng 97:1460-9. 2007..b>Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 can utilize the individual sugars present in lignocellulosic [e.g...
Influence of the protein environment on the redox potentials of flavodoxins from Clostridium beijerinckiiHiroshi Ishikita
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
J Biol Chem 282:25240-6. 2007..These redox potentials in native and mutant flavodoxins obtained from Clostridium beijerinckii were calculated by considering the protonation states of all titratable sites as well as the energy ..
Functional expression of the thiolase gene thl from Clostridium beijerinckii P260 in Lactococcus lactis and Lactobacillus buchneriSiqing Liu
Bioproducts and Biocatalysis Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture 3, 1815 N University St, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
N Biotechnol 27:283-8. 2010..The thl gene from Clostridium beijerinckii P260 was amplified by genomic PCR using gene-specific primers designed from the published genome ..
Production of acetone butanol (AB) from liquefied corn starch, a commercial substrate, using Clostridium beijerinckii coupled with product recovery by gas strippingThaddeus C Ezeji
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Group, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 34:771-7. 2007..beijerinckii BA101 to utilize more than 46 g l(-1) glucose. A combination of fermentation of this novel substrate (LCS) to butanol together with product recovery by gas stripping may economically benefit this fermentation...
Detoxification of model phenolic compounds in lignocellulosic hydrolysates with peroxidase for butanol production from Clostridium beijerinckiiDae Haeng Cho
Department of Chemical Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Wolgye Dong, Nowon Gu, Seoul, Korea
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 83:1035-43. 2009..compounds and evaluated the inhibitory effects of the detoxified solution on butanol production by Clostridium beijerinckii National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria Ltd. 8052...
Butanol production by Clostridium beijerinckii. Part I: use of acid and enzyme hydrolyzed corn fiberNasib Qureshi
United States Department of Agriculture 1, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Fermentation Biotechnology, 1815 N University Street, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
Bioresour Technol 99:5915-22. 2008..7+/-0.2g/L acetone butanol ethanol or ABE) by Clostridium beijerinckii BA101...
A single proline substitution is critical for the thermostabilization of Clostridium beijerinckii alcohol dehydrogenaseEdi Goihberg
Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Proteins 66:196-204. 2007..thermophilic, and hyperthermophilic alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) from the respective microorganisms Clostridium beijerinckii (CbADH), Entamoeba histolytica (EhADH1), and Thermoanaerobacter brockii (TbADH) suggested that a unique, ..
Oligomeric integrity--the structural key to thermal stability in bacterial alcohol dehydrogenasesY Korkhin
Department of Structural Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Protein Sci 8:1241-9. 1999..Two tetrameric NADP(H)-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases, one from Clostridium beijerinckii (CBADH) and the other from Thermoanaerobacter brockii (TBADH), having exceptionally high (75%) sequence ..
Conjugal transfer of transposon Tn1545 into the cellulolytic bacterium Eubacterium cellulosolvensK L Anderson
Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA
Lett Appl Microbiol 26:35-7. 1998..This was achieved by conjugal transfer of the transposon from Clostridium beijerinckii at a frequency of 1 per 10(6) recipient cells. Transconjugants of Eu...
Changes in numbers and kinds of bacteria during a chickpea submerged fermentation used as a leavening agent for bread productionM Hatzikamari
Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Int J Food Microbiol 116:37-43. 2007..perfringens isolates. Strains phenotypically characterized as Bacillus licheniformis and Clostridium beijerinckii were also found to belong to these same species by SDS-PAGE...
Cloning of the Microcystis aeruginosa M228 lectin (MAL) geneM Jimbo
Department of Marine Biochemistry, Kitasato University, Sanriku, Iwate, 022 0101, Japan
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 273:499-504. 2000..These regions show similarity to the corresponding regions of the alpha-amylase of Clostridium beijerinckii (23% identity)...
A gene system for glucitol transport and metabolism in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052M Tangney
Department of Biological Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Appl Environ Microbiol 64:1612-9. 1998The gutD gene of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 encoding glucitol 6-phosphate dehydrogenase was cloned on a 5.7-kbp chromosomal DNA fragment by complementing an Escherichia coli gutD mutant strain and selecting for growth on glucitol...
The ClosTron: Mutagenesis in Clostridium refined and streamlinedJohn T Heap
BBSRC Sustainable BioEnergy Centre, School of Molecular Medical Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
J Microbiol Methods 80:49-55. 2010..transgenes in addition to a marker; and extended the host range of the system, constructing mutants in Clostridium beijerinckii and, for the first time, in a B1/NAP1/027 'epidemic' strain of Clostridium difficile...
Contribution of C. beijerinckii and C. sporogenes in association with C. tyrobutyricum to the butyric fermentation in Emmental type cheeseAnne Gaëlle Le Bourhis
Institut Technique Français des Fromages, 74801 La Roche sur Foron Cedex, France
Int J Food Microbiol 113:154-63. 2007..A chemical analysis of cheese associated with a molecular method for microbial spoilage investigation allows the prediction of the level of late blowing at early stages of ripening, and the understanding of the origin of the defect...
Biochemical and structural properties of chimeras constructed by exchange of cofactor-binding domains in alcohol dehydrogenases from thermophilic and mesophilic microorganismsEdi Goihberg
Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Biochemistry 49:1943-53. 2010..alcohol dehydrogenases from the thermophile Thermoanaerobacter brockii (TbADH), the mesophilic bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii (CbADH), and the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica (EhADH1) have been exchanged...
Isolation of a new butanol-producing Clostridium strain: high level of hemicellulosic activity and structure of solventogenesis genes of a new Clostridium saccharobutylicum isolateOksana V Berezina
State Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, 1st Dorojniy pr 1, 117545 Moscow, Russian Federation
Syst Appl Microbiol 32:449-59. 2009..saccharobutylicum Ox29 were most similar to those of Clostridium beijerinckii. The activity of some of the bcs-operon genes, expressed in heterologous E. coli, was determined.
Fermentation of rice bran and defatted rice bran for butanol 5 production using clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052Jieun Lee
Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440 746, Korea
J Microbiol Biotechnol 19:482-90. 2009We examined butanol fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 using various hydrolyzates obtained from rice bran, which is one of the most abundant agricultural by-products in Korea and Japan...
Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of n-butanolEric J Steen
Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Microb Cell Fact 7:36. 2008..cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, Clostridium beijerinckii, and Ralstonia eutropha) were substituted for the Clostridial enzymes and their effect on n-butanol ..
Problems with the microbial production of butanolYan Ning Zheng
Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 266071 Qingdao, China
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 36:1127-38. 2009..Gas stripping is the best technique for butanol recovery found so far...
Single-nucleotide resolution analysis of the transcriptome structure of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 using RNA-SeqYi Wang
Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
BMC Genomics 12:479. 2011b>Clostridium beijerinckii is an important solvent producing microorganism. The genome of C. beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 has recently been sequenced...
Butanol production by Clostridium beijerinckii ATCC 55025 from wheat branZiyong Liu
Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People s Republic of China
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 37:495-501. 2010..with dilute sulfuric acid was used as a substrate to produce ABE (acetone, butanol and ethanol) using Clostridium beijerinckii ATCC 55025. The wheat bran hydrolysate contained 53.1 g/l total reducing sugars, including 21...
Anthrahydroquinone-2,6,-disulfonate (AH2QDS) increases hydrogen molar yield and xylose utilization in growing cultures of Clostridium beijerinckiiXiaofeng Ye
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 92:855-64. 2011H(2) production and xylose utilization were investigated using the fermentative culture Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052...
Optimization of butanol production from tropical maize stalk juice by fermentation with Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052Yi Wang
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Bioresour Technol 102:9985-90. 2011Mixed sugars from tropical maize stalk juice were used to carry out butanol fermentation with Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052...
Clostridium beijerinckii mutant obtained by atmospheric pressure glow discharge producing high proportions of butanol and solvent yieldsTing Guo
State Key Laboratory of Materials Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, 210009, People s Republic of China
Biotechnol Lett 33:2379-83. 2011With 30 g glucose/l as carbon source, Clostridium beijerinckii ART124, a mutant created by atmospheric pressure glow discharge, produced 13.7 g total solvent/l (containing 3.1 g acetone/l, 10.4 g butanol/l and 0.2 g ethanol/l) in 72 h...
Butanol production from crystalline cellulose by cocultured Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4Shunichi Nakayama
Department of Fermentation Science and Technology, Faculty of Applied Bio Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:6470-5. 2011..Less butanol was produced by cocultured Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium beijerinckii than by strain N1-4, indicating that strain N1-4 was the optimal strain for producing butanol from ..
Meta-analysis and functional validation of nutritional requirements of solventogenic Clostridia growing under butanol stress conditions and coutilization of D-glucose and D-xyloseHumberto Heluane
Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, 1552 Thomas Hall, Box 7615, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:4473-85. 2011..responses to butanol stress, we identified the nutritional requirements of solvent-tolerant strain Clostridium beijerinckii SA-1 (ATCC 35702)...
Continuous production of isopropanol and butanol using Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 6423Shrikant A Survase
School of Chemical Technology, Department of Biotechnology and Chemical Technology, Aalto University, POB 16100, 00076 Aalto, Finland
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 91:1305-13. 2011b>Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 6423 was studied using different continuous production methods to give maximum and stable production of isopropanol and n-butanol...
Acetone production in solventogenic Clostridium species: new insights from non-enzymatic decarboxylation of acetoacetateBei Han
Department of Animal Sciences and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, 305 Gerlaugh Hall, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 91:565-76. 2011..into acetone and CO(2), was successfully disrupted by homologous recombination in solventogenic Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 to generate an aadc ( - ) mutant...
Butanol production from the effluent of hydrogen fermentationW H Chen
Department of Environmental Engineering, National Ilan University, I Lan 260, Taiwan
Water Sci Technol 63:1236-40. 2011..The butanol production by Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B592 was evaluated under both unsterilized and sterilized conditions for examining the potential of ..
Improved efficiency of separate hexose and pentose fermentation from steam-exploded corn stalk for butanol production using Clostridium beijerinckiiXindong Mu
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qindao, Shandong, China
Biotechnol Lett 33:1587-91. 2011..corn stalk (SECS) was detoxified and used as feed for acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation using Clostridium beijerinckii. Utilization of water extract improved the total ABE yield (g ABE/g dry SECS)...
Hydrogen production by the newly isolated Clostridium beijerinckii RZF-1108Xin Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, PR China
Bioresour Technol 102:8432-6. 2011..hydrogen-producing strain, RZF-1108, was isolated from a biohydrogen reactor, and identified as Clostridium beijerinckii on the basis of the 16S rRNA gene analysis and physiobiochemical characteristics...
Bioproduction of butanol in bioreactors: new insights from simultaneous in situ butanol recovery to eliminate product toxicityAdriano Pinto Mariano
Department of Animal Sciences, Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA
Biotechnol Bioeng 108:1757-65. 2011Simultaneous acetone butanol ethanol (ABE) fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii P260 and in situ product recovery was investigated using a vacuum process operated in two modes: continuous and intermittent...
Continuous production of 1,3-propanediol using raw glycerol with immobilized Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B-593 in comparison to suspended cultureMine Gungormusler
Bioengineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 34:727-33. 2011The continuous production of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) was investigated with Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B-593 using raw glycerol without purification obtained from a biodiesel production process...
D-2,3-butanediol production due to heterologous expression of an acetoin reductase in Clostridium acetobutylicumMarco A J Siemerink
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Dreijenplein 10, 6703 HB Wageningen, Netherlands
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:2582-8. 2011..A gene encoding ACR from Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 was functionally expressed in C...
Large number of phosphotransferase genes in the Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 genome and the study on their evolutionYixiang Shi
Bioinformatics Center, Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, PR China
BMC Bioinformatics 11:S9. 2010b>Clostridium beijerinckii is a valuable bacteria species which has the ability of ABE (acetone, butanol and ethanol) production...
Clostridium chromiireducens sp. nov., isolated from Cr(VI)-contaminated soilK S Inglett
Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 61:2626-31. 2011..1-98.9 %) with Clostridium beijerinckii DSM 791(T), C. saccharobutylicum NCP 262(T), C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4(T), C...
Fermentative butanol production by ClostridiaSang Yup Lee
Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering BK21 Program, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yuseong Gu, Daejeon 305 701, Republic of Korea
Biotechnol Bioeng 101:209-28. 2008..The strategies for strain improvement by metabolic engineering and further requirements to make fermentative butanol production a successful industrial process are also discussed...
Chitinolytic activities of Clostridium sp. JM2 isolated from stool of human administered per orally by chitosanJ Simunek
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 142 20 Prague, Czechia
Folia Microbiol (Praha) 53:249-54. 2008The novel chitinolytic bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii strain JM2 was isolated from the stool of healthy volunteers supplied daily per orally with 3 g of chitosan...
Redox potential difference between Desulfovibrio vulgaris and Clostridium beijerinckii flavodoxinsHiroshi Ishikita
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Biochemistry 47:4394-402. 2008..using the crystal structure of the relevant hydroquinone form and compared to the results of the Clostridium beijerinckii ( C. beijerinckii) flavodoxin. In D. vulgaris and C...
The effect of heat-shocking on batch fermentation by Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B592J R Gapes
Technische Universitat Wien, Institut fur Verfahrenstechnik, Brennstofftechnik und Umwelttechnik, Vienna, Austria
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 54:118-20. 2000..Data presented in this paper demonstrate and quantify the effect of heat-shocking on batch fermentation yields using one organism capable of this fermentation...
Butanol production using Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 hyper-butanol producing mutant strain and recovery by pervaporationN Qureshi
University of Illinois, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Urbana 61801, USA
Appl Biochem Biotechnol 84:225-35. 2000b>Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 (mutant strain) and C. beijerinckii 8052 (wild type) were compared for substrate and butanol inhibition. The wild-type strain is more strongly inhibited by added butanol than is the mutant strain...
Crystal structure of a thermophilic alcohol dehydrogenase substrate complex suggests determinants of substrate specificity and thermostabilityC Li
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 4935, USA
Proteins 37:619-27. 1999..by comparison to the crystal structure of a highly homologous mesophilic alcohol dehydrogenase from Clostridium beijerinckii (CBAD)...
Comparisons of wild-type and mutant flavodoxins from Anacystis nidulans. Structural determinants of the redox potentialsD M Hoover
Biophysics Research Division and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, 930 N Univeristy Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Mol Biol 294:725-43. 1999..bonds to the flavin N(5)H; this rearrangement is analogous to changes observed in the flavodoxins from Clostridium beijerinckii and Desulfovibrio vulgaris...
Dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction by Clostridium beijerinckii isolated from freshwater sediment using Fe(III) maltol enrichmentP S Dobbin
Centre for Metalloprotein Spectroscopy and Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
FEMS Microbiol Lett 176:131-8. 1999..16S rRNA gene sequencing indicated the isolate to be a strain of Clostridium beijerinckii. Growth experiments were performed on the isolate in batch cultures with varying concentrations of Fe(III)..
The genes controlling sucrose utilization in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 constitute an operonS J Reid
Department of Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Microbiology 145:1461-72. 1999The sucrose operon of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 comprises four genes, which encode a sucrose-specific enzyme IIBC(Scr) protein of the phosphotransferase system (ScrA), a transcriptional repressor (ScrR), a sucrose hydrolase (..
Enhanced thermal stability of Clostridium beijerinckii alcohol dehydrogenase after strategic substitution of amino acid residues with prolines from the homologous thermophilic Thermoanaerobacter brockii alcohol dehydrogenaseO Bogin
Department of Organic Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Protein Sci 7:1156-63. 1998A comparison of the three-dimensional structures of the closely related mesophilic Clostridium beijerinckii alcohol dehydrogenase (CBADH) and the hyperthermophilic Thermoanaerobacter brockii alcohol dehydrogenase (TBADH) suggested that ..
NADP-dependent bacterial alcohol dehydrogenases: crystal structure, cofactor-binding and cofactor specificity of the ADHs of Clostridium beijerinckii and Thermoanaerobacter brockiiY Korkhin
Department of Structural Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
J Mol Biol 278:967-81. 1998..The carboxyl group of Asp150 is oriented with respect to the active carbon of NADP(H) so as to form hydrogen bonds with both pro-S and pro-R hydrogen atoms...
Solvent production by Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B592 growing on different potato mediaD Nimcevic
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Austria
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 50:426-8. 1998Very good solvent formation rates were observed when Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B592 was cultivated on different whole potato media...
Truncation of peptide deformylase reduces the growth rate and stabilizes solvent production in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052V J Evans
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Appl Environ Microbiol 64:1780-5. 1998The 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...
Control of oxidation-reduction potentials in flavodoxin from Clostridium beijerinckii: the role of conformation changesM L Ludwig
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1055, USA
Biochemistry 36:1259-80. 1997X-ray analyses of wild-type and mutant flavodoxins from Clostridium beijerinckii show that the conformation of the peptide Gly57-Asp58, in a bend near the isoalloxazine ring of FMN, is correlated with the oxidation state of the FMN ..
Clostridium beijerinckii cells expressing Neocallimastix patriciarum glycoside hydrolases show enhanced lichenan utilization and solvent productionA M López-Contreras
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Appl Environ Microbiol 67:5127-33. 2001Growth and the production of acetone, butanol, and ethanol by Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 on several polysaccharides and sugars were analyzed...
Improvement of comparative modeling by the application of conserved motifs amongst distantly related proteins as additional restraintsSaikat Chakrabarti
National Centre for Biological Sciences TIFR, UAS GKVK Campus, Bellary Road, 560065 Bangalore, India
J Mol Model 10:69-75. 2004..We demonstrate the influence of such approaches to homology modeling during distant relationships in understanding functional properties of protein such as ligand binding using cytochrome P450 as an example...
Influence of reduced electron shuttling compounds on biological H2 production in the fermentative pure culture Clostridium beijerinckiiJennifer L Hatch
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 3221 Newmark Laboratory, 205 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Curr Microbiol 56:268-73. 2008..b>Clostridium beijerinckii fermentation was altered using a physiological approach that resulted in H(2) production with the reduced ..
Genetic features of circular bacteriocins produced by Gram-positive bacteriaMercedes Maqueda
Departmento de Microbiologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Fuentenueva s n, Granada, Spain
FEMS Microbiol Rev 32:2-22. 2008..anaerobe Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens AR10, uberolysin, from Streptococcus uberis, circularin A, from Clostridium beijerinckii ATCC 25752, and subtilosin A, from Bacillus subtilis...
Fermentation of dried distillers' grains and solubles (DDGS) hydrolysates to solvents and value-added products by solventogenic clostridiaThaddeus Ezeji
University of Illinois, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Group, Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research and Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, 1207 W Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Bioresour Technol 99:5232-42. 2008..mixed sugar streams (pentoses and hexoses) and their sugar preferences by the solventogenic clostridia (Clostridium beijerinckii BA101, C. acetobutylicum 260, C. acetobutylicum 824, Clostridium saccharobutylicum 262, and C...
Engineered synthetic pathway for isopropanol production in Escherichia coliT Hanai
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 5531 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7814-8. 2007..coli K-12 MG1655, Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B593, and Thermoanaerobacter brockii HTD4. The strain with the combination of C...
Co-regulation of the nitrogen-assimilatory gene cluster in Clostridium saccharobutylicumHelen E Stutz
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
Microbiology 153:3081-90. 2007..A similar gene arrangement is seen in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052, and based on the common regulatory features of the promoter regions upstream of the glnA ..
Characterization of the sol operon in butanol-hyperproducing Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum strain N1-4 and its degeneration mechanismTomoyuki Kosaka
Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Japan
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 71:58-68. 2007..These genes share as high as 95-98% similarity with the corresponding sol genes of Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052...
Evidence for the presence of an alternative glucose transport system in Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 and the solvent-hyperproducing mutant BA101Jieun Lee
Food Microbiology Division, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:3384-7. 2005The effects of substrate analogs and energy inhibitors on glucose uptake and phosphorylation by Clostridium beijerinckii provide evidence for the operation of two uptake systems: a previously characterized phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent ..
Improving performance of a gas stripping-based recovery system to remove butanol from Clostridium beijerinckii fermentationThaddeus C Ezeji
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Group, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, 1207 W Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 27:207-14. 2005..5-5.0 mm), the bubble size did not have any effect on butanol removal rate (Fig. 3, model solution). In Clostridium beijerinckii fermentation, ABE productivity was reduced from 0.47 g L(-1) h(-1) to 0...
Maintenance of DeltapH by a butanol-tolerant mutant of Clostridium beijerinckiiFanqiang Wang
Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118 2526, USA
Microbiology 151:607-13. 2005The isolation of Clostridium beijerinckii mutants that are more tolerant of butanol than the wild-type offered the opportunity to investigate whether the membrane activities which are required for maintaining the transmembrane DeltapH (..
The circular bacteriocins gassericin A and circularin AYasushi Kawai
Laboratory of Animal Products Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 981 8555, Japan
Curr Protein Pept Sci 5:393-8. 2004..Circularin A produced by Clostridium beijerinckii ATCC25752 is active against C. tyrobutyricum, a known cheese-spoilage bacterium...
Rapid expansion of the physical and genetic map of the chromosome of Clostridium perfringens CPN50S Katayama
Unite de Genetique Moleculaire Bacterienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Bacteriol 177:5680-5. 1995..A comparison of the gene maps of three endospore-forming bacilli, C. perfringens, Clostridium beijerinckii, and Bacillus subtilis, revealed a similar order and distribution of key sporulation and heat shock genes ..
Comparison of different mixed cultures for bio-hydrogen production from ground wheat starch by combined dark and light fermentationSerpil Ozmihci
Department of Environmental Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Buca, Izmir, Turkey
J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 37:341-7. 2010..Heat-treated anaerobic sludge and pure culture of Clostridium beijerinckii (DSMZ 791T) were combined with two different light fermentation bacteria of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (RS-..
Energy-efficient recovery of butanol from model solutions and fermentation broth by adsorptionN Qureshi
United States Department of Agriculture, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research USDA, NCAUR, Fermentation Biotechnology, 1815 N University Street, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 27:215-22. 2005..Other techniques such as gas stripping and pervaporation require 5,220 and 3,295 kcal kg(-1) butanol, respectively...
Research Grants
- Biosensors for metabolic engineeringJay Keasling; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
