Polymerization of glucans by enzymatically active membranes

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 964-968

  Becker, Margot ^a   Provart, Nicholas ^b   Lehmann, Ingeburg ^a   Ulbricht, Mathias ^a   Hicke, Hans Georg ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PlantTec Biotechnologie GmbH F and E   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOREACTORS; ENZYMES; POLYMERIZATION; POLYPROPYLENES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GLUCOSE;

BIOREACTORS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMES, IMMOBILIZED; GLUCANS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NEISSERIA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYMERS; POLYPROPYLENES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE;

EID: 0036752601     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp020013b     Document Type: Article

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