Isolation and identification of equol-producing bacterial strains from cultures of pig faeces

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-80

  Yu, Zhuo Teng ^a   Yao, Wen ^a   Zhu, Wei Yun ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Daidzein transformation; Equol production; Pig faecal bacteria

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; EQUOL; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM; FECES CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINANT STOMACH; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHINA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; ISOFLAVONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUBACTERIUM SP.; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 41549089204     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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