Chapter 11 Sugar Biosynthesis and Modification

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 458, Issue A, 2009, Pages 277-308

  Lombó, Felipe ^a   Olano, Carlos ^a   Salas, José A ^a   Méndez, Carmen ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYSUGAR; METHYL GREEN; METHYL GROUP; MITHRAMYCIN; STAUROSPORINE; SUGAR; TETRACENOMYCIN C;

CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEEDING; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INACTIVATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ALBUS; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

EID: 64249096506     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(09)04811-3     Document Type: Review

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