Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of Two β-Galactosidases from Bifidobacterium infantis HL96

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 4256-4263

  Hung, Ming Ni ^a   Xia, Zhicheng ^a   Hu, Nien Tai ^b   Lee, Byong H ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GALACTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; GALACTOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035464187     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.9.4256-4263.2001     Document Type: Article

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