Biosynthesis of Levan, a Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharide, in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Franken, Jaco ^a   Brandt, Bianca A ^a   Tai, Siew L ^a   Bauer, Florian F ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LEVAN; LEVANSUCRASE; LEVANSUCRASE M1FT; SUCROSE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

FERMENTATION; FRUCTANS; FRUCTOSEPHOSPHATES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; POLYMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUCROSE;

EID: 84885395445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077499     Document Type: Article

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