Transcriptional and functional characterization of genetic elements involved in galacto-oligosaccharide utilization by Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-79

  O'Connell Motherway, Mary ^a,b   Kinsella, Michael ^b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a,b   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GLUCOSE; INULIN; PERMEASE; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE FLORA; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; GALACTOSE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PREBIOTICS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE;

EID: 84871383800     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12011     Document Type: Article

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