Functional Analysis of the Lactococcus lactis galU and galE Genes and Their Impact on Sugar Nucleotide and Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3033-3040

  Boels, Ingeborg C ^a,b   Ramos, Ana ^c   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a,b   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 0035404267     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3033-3040.2001     Document Type: Article

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