Genetics of a novel starch utilisation pathway present in Klebsiella oxytoca

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-291

  Fiedler, G ^a   Pajatsch, M ^a   Bock A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyclodextrin metabolism; Cyclodextrin transport; Cyclodextrinase; cym genes

Indexed keywords

4ALPHA GLUCANOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA CYCLODEXTRIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; CYCLOMALTODEXTRIN GLUCANOTRANSFERASE; MALTODEXTRIN; PHOSPHORYLASE; STARCH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029919677     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0085     Document Type: Article

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