Amino acid deamination by ruminal Megasphaera elsdenii strains

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 340-345

  Rychlik, Jennifer L ^a   La Vera, Ray ^a   Russell, James B ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; MONENSIN; PEPTIDASE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CASAMINO ACIDS; CASEIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; RNA 16S; TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH; TRYPTICASE-SOY BROTH;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COW; DEAMINATION; DILUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEGASPHAERA ELSDENII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANT STOMACH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEGASPHAERA; MEGASPHAERA ELSDENII; PHLEUM PRATENSE;

AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CASEINS; CATTLE; DEAMINATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FEMALE; MONENSIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUMEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036834708     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3743-4     Document Type: Article

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