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Cloning and Expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum Genes Involved in Carbohydrate Utilization

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Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

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The bioconversion of plant raw materials into refined chemicals has become a stimulating field of biotechnology. The expanding studies on Clostridium acetobutylicum, a gram-positive anaerobic bacterium that produces solvents such as acetone, butanol, and ethanol from carbohydrates, illustrate this interest (Zeikus, 1980; Blaschek, 1986; Jones and Woods, 1986a; McNeil and Kristiansen, 1986; Rogers, 1986; Bahl and Gottschalk, 1988; Young et al., 1989).

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Verhasselt, P., Vanderleyden, J. (1993). Cloning and Expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum Genes Involved in Carbohydrate Utilization. In: Sebald, M. (eds) Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7087-5_21

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