Cloning, characterization, controlled overexpression, and inactivation of the major tributyrin esterase gene of Lactococcus lactis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1360-1368

  Fernández, Leonides ^a,c   Beerthuyzen, Marke M ^a   Brown, Julie ^b   Siezen, Roland J ^a   Coolbear, Tim ^b   Holland, Ross ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,d  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NEW ZEALAND DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; HYDROLASE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID DERIVATIVE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRIBUTYRIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTERASES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NISIN; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0342369383     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1360-1368.2000     Document Type: Article

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