Metabolic engineering of lactic acid bacteria: Overview of the approaches and results of pathway rerouting involved in food fermentations

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 492-497

  Hugenholtz, Jeroen ^a   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ALANINE; ALCOHOL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; VITAMIN;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FERMENTATION; FOOD PROCESSING; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 0032836040     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(99)00016-6     Document Type: Review

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