Enzymatic Transformations Involved in the Biosynthesis of Microbial Exo-polysaccharides Based on the Assembly of Repeat Units

High throughput exopolysaccharide screening platform: From strain cultivation to monosaccharide composition and carbohydrate fingerprinting in one day

(2015) Broder Rühmann et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

A comparison of genes involved in sphingan biosynthesis brought up to date

(2014) Jochen Schmid et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Comparative genomics of the Bifidobacterium breve taxon

(2014) Francesca Bottacini et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Synthesis of bacterial polysaccharides via the Wzx/Wzy-dependent pathway

(2014) Salim T. Islam et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity of O-Antigen Repeat Unit Structures Can Account for the Substantial Sequence Variation of Wzx Translocases

(2014) Y. Hong et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Fast carbohydrate analysis via liquid chromatography coupled with ultra violet and electrospray ionization ion trap detection in 96-well format

(2014) Broder Rühmann et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

Biophysical characterization of the outer membrane polysaccharide export protein and the polysaccharide co-polymerase protein from Xanthomonas campestris

(2014) M.I. Bianco et al.   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

Cloning, expression and characterization of a phosphoglucomutase/phosphomannomutase from sphingan-producing Sphingomonas sanxanigenens

(2013) Haidong Huang et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Bioactivity and Applications of Sulphated Polysaccharides from Marine Microalgae

(2013) Maria Raposo et al.   Marine Drugs

Genetics and Evolution of the Salmonella Galactose-Initiated Set of O Antigens

(2013) Peter R. Reeves et al.   PLoS One

Topological mapping methods for α-helical bacterial membrane proteins - an update and a guide

(2013) Salim T. Islam et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Homo- and heterotypic interactions between Pss proteins involved in the exopolysaccharide transport system in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii

(2012) Małgorzata Marczak et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Wzx flippase-mediated membrane translocation of sugar polymer precursors in bacteria

(2012) Salim T. Islam et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Xanthan chain length is modulated by increasing the availability of the polysaccharide copolymerase protein GumC and the outer membrane polysaccharide export protein GumB

(2012) Estela M Galván et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Genome Sequence of the Welan Gum-Producing Strain Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 31555

(2012) X. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Genome Sequence of Xanthomonas campestris JX, an Industrially Productive Strain for Xanthan Gum

(2012) F. Tao et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Glucansucrases: Three-dimensional structures, reactions, mechanism, α-glucan analysis and their implications in biotechnology and food applications

(2012) Hans Leemhuis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

A cationic lumen in the Wzx flippase mediates anionic O-antigen subunit translocation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

(2012) Salim T. Islam et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Wzx translocases for Salmonella enterica O-antigen processing have unexpected serotype specificity

(2012) Yaoqin Hong et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Polysaccharide co-polymerases: the enigmatic conductors of the O-antigen assembly orchestra

(2012) S. Kalynych et al.   PROTEIN ENGINEERING DESIGN & SELECTION

Synthase-dependent exopolysaccharide secretion in Gram-negative bacteria

(2012) J.C. Whitney et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Dual Conserved Periplasmic Loops Possess Essential Charge Characteristics That Support a Catch-and-Release Mechanism of O-antigen Polymerization by Wzy inPseudomonas aeruginosaPAO1

(2011) Salim T. Islam et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The genetic and structural basis of two distinct terminal side branch residues in stewartan and amylovoran exopolysaccharides and their potential role in host adaptation

(2011) Xiaolei Wang et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Biosynthesis of dextrans with different molecular weights by selecting the concentration of Leuconostoc mesenteroides B-512FMC dextransucrase, the sucrose concentration, and the temperature

(2010) Daniel J. Falconer et al.   CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH

Characterization of the O-antigen Polymerase (Wzy) ofFrancisella tularensis

(2010) Tae-Hyun Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structure of a cation-bound multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporter

(2010) Xiao He et al.   NATURE

Bacterial polymers: biosynthesis, modifications and applications

(2010) Bernd H. A. Rehm   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane Topology Mapping of the O-Antigen Flippase (Wzx), Polymerase (Wzy), and Ligase (WaaL) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 Reveals Novel Domain Architectures

(2010) S. T. Islam et al.   mBio

Pivotal Roles of the Outer Membrane Polysaccharide Export and Polysaccharide Copolymerase Protein Families in Export of Extracellular Polysaccharides in Gram-Negative Bacteria

(2009) L. Cuthbertson et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Occurrence, production, and applications of gellan: current state and perspectives

(2008) Arsenio M. Fialho et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

(2008) Ramy K Aziz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Dextransucrase and the mechanism for dextran biosynthesis

(2008) John F. Robyt et al.   CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH

The genome of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris B100 and its use for the reconstruction of metabolic pathways involved in xanthan biosynthesis

(2008) Frank-Jörg Vorhölter et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification and organization of genes for diutan polysaccharide synthesis from Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 53159

(2008) Russell J. Coleman et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Sequence-structure relationships in polysaccharide co-polymerase (PCP) proteins

(2008) Renato Morona et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES