Cloning and sequencing of the gene for cellobiose 2-epimerase from a ruminal strain of Eubacterium cellulosolvens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-40

  Taguchi, Hidenori ^a   Senoura, Takeshi ^a   Hamada, Shigeki ^a   Matsui, Hirokazu ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuo ^a   Watanabe, Jun ^a   Wasaki, Jun ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellobiose 2 epimerase; Epilactose; Eubacterium; N acyl D glucosamine 2 epimerase; Rumen

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELLOBIOSE 2 EPIMERASE; EPIMERASE; LACTOSE; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CALDICELLULOSIRUPTOR SACCHAROLYTICUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLOSTRIDIUM PHYTOFERMENTANS; COPROCOCCUS EUTACTUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM CELLULOSOLVENS; EUBACTERIUM SIRAEUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RUMEN MICROORGANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLOBIOSE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EUBACTERIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LACTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RACEMASES AND EPIMERASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RUMEN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

CALDICELLULOSIRUPTOR SACCHAROLYTICUS; CLOSTRIDIUM PHYTOFERMENTANS; COPROCOCCUS EUTACTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM CELLULOSOLVENS; EUBACTERIUM SIRAEUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS;

EID: 50949104229     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01281.x     Document Type: Article

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