Comparative genomics of enzymes in flavor-forming pathways from amino acids in lactic acid bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4590-4600

  Liu, Mengjin ^a,b   Nauta, Arjen ^b   Francke, Christof ^a,d   Siezen, Roland J ^a,c,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b FRIESLANDCAMPINA   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOACID; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYSTEINE; ESTERASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LYASE; METHIONINE;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAIRY INDUSTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLAVOR; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIGENOMICS; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSAMINATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYMES; ESTERASES; FLAVORING AGENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LACTOBACILLACEAE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 49449101678     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00150-08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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