Secondary Structure and Stability of Marsh Grapefruit Thermolabile Pectinesterase

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3480-3483

  Sun, D ^c   Grant, T ^a   Dure, L ^a   Wicker, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Denaturation; Pectinesterase; Stability; Thermal transition

Indexed keywords

CITRUS X PARADISI;

EID: 0007596664     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf980209k     Document Type: Article

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