Microbiologia
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Item Fermentation of maltose and starch by Klebsiella oxytoca P2(Biotechnology Letters, 1998-12) Santos, Vera L. dos; Guimarães, Walter V.; Barros, Everaldo G. de; Araújo, Elza F.Klebsiella oxytoca P2, which has genes from Zymomonas mobilis encoding the alcohol dehydrogenase and pyruvate decarboxylase integrated in its chromosome, fermented 50 g maltose/l to 25.4 g of ethanol/l. It also fermented 10, 20 and 40 g starch/l yielding 4, 8.4, and 17.7 g ethanol/l, respectively, representing 72, 75 and 78% of the theoretical yield.