Lacto-N-biosidase Encoded by a Novel Gene ofBifidobacterium longumSubspecieslongumShows Unique Substrate Specificity and Requires a Designated Chaperone for Its Active Expression

Mutations in B3GALNT2 Cause Congenital Muscular Dystrophy and Hypoglycosylation of α-Dystroglycan

(2013) Elizabeth Stevens et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Crystal Structures of a Glycoside Hydrolase Family 20 Lacto-N-biosidase fromBifidobacterium bifidum

(2013) Tasuku Ito et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Exo- and endoglycosidases revisited

(2013) Akira KOBATA   PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY SERIES B-PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Release and utilization of N-acetyl-d-glucosamine from human milk oligosaccharides by Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis

(2012) Daniel Garrido et al.   ANAEROBE

Development of a Double-Crossover Markerless Gene Deletion System in Bifidobacterium longum: Functional Analysis of the α-Galactosidase Gene for Raffinose Assimilation

(2012) Yosuke Hirayama et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

1,3-1,4-α-l-Fucosynthase That Specifically Introduces Lewis a/x Antigens into Type-1/2 Chains

(2012) Haruko Sakurama et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis uses two different β-galactosidases for selectively degrading type-1 and type-2 human milk oligosaccharides

(2011) Erina Yoshida et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Physiology of Consumption of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Infant Gut-associated Bifidobacteria

(2011) Sadaki Asakuma et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

(2011) Shinji Fukuda et al.   NATURE

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

LacdiNAc (GalNAcβ1-4GlcNAc) Contributes to Self-Renewal of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells by Regulating Leukemia Inhibitory Factor/STAT3 Signaling

(2011) Norihiko Sasaki et al.   STEM CELLS

An exo-α-sialidase from bifidobacteria involved in the degradation of sialyloligosaccharides in human milk and intestinal glycoconjugates

(2010) Masashi Kiyohara et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Cooperation of β-galactosidase and β-N-acetylhexosaminidase from bifidobacteria in assimilation of human milk oligosaccharides with type 2 structure

(2010) Mika Miwa et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Structures and application of oligosaccharides in human milk

(2010) Akira KOBATA   PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY SERIES B-PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

O-Mannosyl Phosphorylation of Alpha-Dystroglycan Is Required for Laminin Binding

(2010) T. Yoshida-Moriguchi et al.   SCIENCE

Distribution of In Vitro Fermentation Ability of Lacto-N-Biose I, a Major Building Block of Human Milk Oligosaccharides, in Bifidobacterial Strains

(2009) J.-z. Xiao et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Two distinct  -L-fucosidases from Bifidobacterium bifidum are essential for the utilization of fucosylated milk oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates

(2009) H. Ashida et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Bifidobacterium bifidum Lacto-N-Biosidase, a Critical Enzyme for the Degradation of Human Milk Oligosaccharides with a Type 1 Structure

(2008) J. Wada et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structural and Thermodynamic Analyses of Solute-binding Protein fromBifidobacterium longumSpecific for Core 1 Disaccharide and Lacto-N-biose I

(2008) Ryuichiro Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome

(2008) D. A. Sela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA