Activity of the enzymes involved in the synthesis of exopolysaccharide precursors in an overproducing mutant ropy strain of Streptococcus thermophilus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 289-293

  Escalante, Adelfo ^a   Villegas, Jesús ^a   Wacher, Carmen ^a   García Garibay, Mariano ^b   Farrés, Amelia ^a  

^a Ciudad Universitaria   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Exocellular polysaccharide; Mutant strain; Precursor synthesizing enzyme; Streptococcus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUGAR NUCLEOTIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; UTP-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0037046275     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00562-1     Document Type: Article

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