Better off breathing: an explanation for the seemingly detrimental impact of aerobic respiration on Zymomonas mobilis
ABSTRACTThe bacterium Zymomonas mobilis is best known for fermentatively producing more ethanol than yeast. However, Z. mobilis has also puzzled researchers for decades with the counterintuitive observation that disrupting aerobic respiration benefits aerobic growth, implying that fermentation remai...
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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2024-01-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02690-23 |