Identification of an enzyme system for daidzein-to-equol conversion in slackia sp. Strain NATTS

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1228-1236

  Tsuji, Hirokazu ^a   Moriyama, Kaoru ^a   Nomoto, Koji ^a   Akaza, Hideyuki ^b  

^a YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION REACTIONS; DAIDZEIN; DIHYDRODAIDZEIN; E. COLI; ENZYME SYSTEMS; EXPRESSION VECTORS; GENE FRAGMENTS; LACTOCOCCUS; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PRIMARY AMINO ACID; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL DNA; DAIDZEIN; DIHYDRODAIDZEIN; ENZYME; EQUOL; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLONE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYMES; EQUOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; ISOFLAVONES; LACTOCOCCUS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS; SLACKIA;

EID: 84857080143     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06779-11     Document Type: Article

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