Unraveling the leloir pathway of Bifidobacterium bifidum: Significance of the uridylyltransferases

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 7028-7035

  De Bruyn, Frederik ^a   Beauprez, Joeri ^a   Maertens, Jo ^a   Soetaert, Wim ^a   De Mey, Marjan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFIDOBACTERIA; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GLUCOSE 1-PHOSPHATE; HUMAN MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDES; LELOIR PATHWAY; URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHARIFICATION;

GLUCOSE;

BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH RATE; PHOSPHATE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSE PHOSPHATE; GALACTOSE-1-PHOSPHATE; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSEPHOSPHATES; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MILK, HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PLASMIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; UDPGLUCOSE-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; UTP-HEXOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 84886669153     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02460-13     Document Type: Article

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