Increased cellulose production from sucrose by acetobacter after introducing the sucrose phosphorylase gene

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1778-1780

  Tonouchi, Naoto ^a   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a,b   Tsuchida, Takayasu ^a   Yoshinaga, Fumihiro ^a  

^a Bio Polymer Research Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetobacter; Cellulose; Gene introduction; Sucrose phosphorylase

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009631772     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.62.1778     Document Type: Article

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