A complex gene locus enables xyloglucan utilization in the model saprophyte Cellvibrio japonicus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 418-433

  Larsbrink, Johan ^a   Thompson, Andrew J ^b   Lundqvist, Magnus ^a   Gardner, Jeffrey G ^c   Davies, Gideon J ^b   Brumer, Harry ^a,d  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LEVO FUCOSIDASE; ALPHA XYLOSIDASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUCAN; PROTEIN TONB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLOGLUCAN; XYLAN;

ARTICLE; CELLVIBRIO; CELLVIBRIO JAPONICUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE GENETICS; SACCHARIFICATION; SAPROTROPH; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

CELLVIBRIO JAPONICUS;

ALPHA-L-FUCOSIDASE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELLVIBRIO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LOCI; GLUCANS; KINETICS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE GENETICS; XYLANS; XYLOSIDASES;

EID: 84916926060     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12776     Document Type: Article

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