The Azotobacter vinelandii AlgE mannuronan C-5-epimerase family is essential for the in vivo control of alginate monomer composition and for functional cyst formation

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1760-1770

  Steigedal, Magnus ^a   Sletta, Håvard ^b   Moreno, Soledad ^c   Mærk, Mali ^a   Christensen, Bjørn E ^a   Bjerkan, Tonje ^a   Ellingsen, Trond Erling ^b   Espìn, Guadalupe ^c   Ertesvåg, Helga ^a   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; EPIMERASE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; MANNURONAN C 5 EPIMERASE; MANNURONAN C-5-EPIMERASE; MANNURONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION;

ALGINATES; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 44849117504     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01597.x     Document Type: Article

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