Highly hydrolytic reuteransucrase from probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri strain ATCC 55730

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3942-3950

  Kralj, S ^a,c   Stripling, E ^a,c   Sanders, P ^b   Van Geel Schutten, G H ^a,b   Dijkhuizen, L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SIZE DETERMINATION; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

BIOGAIA COMPANY (CO); LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI STRAIN ATCC 55730; PROBIOTIC STRAIN; REUTERANSUCRASE;

BACTERIA;

HYDROLASE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; REUTERANSUCRASE; REUTERI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPERNATANT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCANS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; KINETICS; LACTOBACILLUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROBIOTICS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI;

EID: 21744458645     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.7.3942-3950.2005     Document Type: Article

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