New advances in exopolysaccharides production of Streptococcus thermophilus

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 799-809

  Cui, Yanhua ^a   Jiang, Xu ^a   Hao, Mengyuan ^a   Qu, Xiaojun ^b   Hu, Tong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Diversity; Exopolysaccharides; Function; Streptococcus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE, STREPTOCOCCUS;

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYSACCHARIDE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; FERMENTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 85016389866     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: 1432072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-017-1366-1     Document Type: Review

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