The probiotic Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533 produces high-molecular-mass inulin from sucrose by using an inulosucrase enzyme

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3426-3433

  Anwar, Munir A ^b   Kralj, Slavko ^b   Van Der Maarel, Marc J E C ^b   Dijkhuizen, Lubbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; FOOD ADDITIVES; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

INULOSUCRASE; LEVANSUCRASE; OPEN READING FRAME (ORF); PROBIOTIC;

ENZYMES;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CALCIUM ION; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; INULIN; INULOSUCRASE; POLYMER; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SUCROSE;

BACTERIUM; CALCIUM; CARBON ISOTOPE; CATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PH; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROBIOTICS; PROTEIN; REACTION KINETICS; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSFRUCTOSYLATION;

CALCIUM; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COENZYMES; EDETIC ACID; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE DELETION; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INULIN; KINETICS; LACTOBACILLUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROBIOTICS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUCROSE; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII NCC 533;

EID: 44949243253     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00377-08     Document Type: Article

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