Regulon prediction of the sporulation factors Spo0A, SigF, SigE, and SigG in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

ABSTRACT: Clostridium acetobutylicum, the endospore-forming anaerobe best known for its ABE (acetone-butanol-ethanol) fermentation, has received renewed attention recently for the biological production of butanol, both for bulk chemical production and as a potential biofuel. With butanol production in mind, most of the recent research on C. acetobutylicum has focused on increasing butanol production, tolerance to butanol, and optimizing it for various substrates. However, an equally important trait, though less understood, is its sporulation program, which it coupled to solvent formation. The model organism for endospore formation is Bacillus subtilis, but significant physiological, metabolic, and genomic differences exist between the two organisms. Despite these differences, the major sporulation-r

ORGANISM(S): Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824

SUBMITTER: Eleftherios Papoutsakis 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-24103 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress