Molecular cloning and functional expression in Lactobacillus plantarum 80 of xylT, encoding the D-xylose-H+ symporter of Lactobacillus brevis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4720-4728

  Chaillou, Stéphane ^a,b   Bor, Yeou Cherng ^c   Batt, Carl A ^c   Postma, Pieter W ^a   Pouwels, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; CARRIER PROTEIN; DEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE; XYLOSE ISOMERASE; XYLULOSE; XYLULOSE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOPHILA; LACTOBACILLUS BREVIS; LACTOBACILLUS PENTOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; POSIBACTERIA; TETRAGENOCOCCUS HALOPHILUS;

EID: 0031767639     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.12.4720-4728.1998     Document Type: Article

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