| Title |
Involvement of a Bacterial Microcompartment in the Metabolism of Fucose and Rhamnose by Clostridium phytofermentans
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0054337 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elsa Petit, W. Greg LaTouf, Maddalena V. Coppi, Thomas A. Warnick, Devin Currie, Igor Romashko, Supriya Deshpande, Kelly Haas, Jesús G. Alvelo-Maurosa, Colin Wardman, Danny J. Schnell, Susan B. Leschine, Jeffrey L. Blanchard |
| Abstract |
Clostridium phytofermentans, an anaerobic soil bacterium, can directly convert plant biomass into biofuels. The genome of C. phytofermentans contains three loci with genes encoding shell proteins of bacterial microcompartments (BMC), organelles composed entirely of proteins. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 43 | 32% |
| Researcher | 23 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 5% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 55 | 40% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 35 | 26% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 5 | 4% |
| Engineering | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 6% |
| Unknown | 20 | 15% |