Making more of milk sugar by engineering lactic acid bacteria

International Dairy Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-233

  De Vos, Willem M ^a   Hols, Pascal ^b   Van Kranenburg, Richard ^a   Luesink, Evert ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a   Van Der Oost, John ^b   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a   Hugenholtz, Jeroen ^a  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Genetic engineering; Lactic acid bacteria; Lactose; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAVOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD PROCESSING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEALTH; LACTIC ACID; LACTOSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MILK; SUGAR; TEXTURE;

EID: 0032029325     PISSN: 09586946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-6946(98)00049-1     Document Type: Article

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