A Highly Active Endo-Levanase BT1760 of a Dominant Mammalian Gut Commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Cleaves Not Only Various Bacterial Levans, but Also Levan of Timothy Grass

• Karin Mardo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karin Mardo, Triinu Visnapuu

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Triinu Visnapuu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karin Mardo, Triinu Visnapuu

  Current address: Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Heiki Vija,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia

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• Anneli Aasamets,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Katrin Viigand,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Tiina Alamäe

  * E-mail: talamae@ebc.ee

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-0844

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