Bifidobacterial α-galactosidase with unique carbohydrate-binding module specifically acts on blood group B antigen.
Wakinaka T, Kiyohara M, Kurihara S, Hirata A, Chaiwangsri T, Ohnuma T, Fukamizo T, Katayama T, Ashida H, Yamamoto K.
Wakinaka T, et al. Among authors: kiyohara m.
Glycobiology. 2013 Feb;23(2):232-40. doi: 10.1093/glycob/cws142. Epub 2012 Oct 22.
Glycobiology. 2013.
PMID: 23089618
We previously reported that B. bifidum possesses unique metabolic pathways for O-linked glycans on gastrointestinal mucin (Yoshida E, Sakurama H, Kiyohara M, Nakajima M, Kitaoka M, Ashida H, Hirose J, Katayama T, Yamamoto K, Kumagai H. 2012. ...
We previously reported that B. bifidum possesses unique metabolic pathways for O-linked glycans on gastrointestinal mucin (Yoshida E, Sakura …