Production and processing of a 59-kilodalton exochitinase during growth of Streptomyces lividans carrying pCHIO12 in soil microcosms amended with crab or fungal chitin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1774-1780

  Vionis, Anna P ^a   Niemeyer, Frank ^a   Karagouni, Amalia D ^b   Schrempf, Hildgund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE; FIBRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CRAB; ENZYME MECHANISM; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS PROLIFERANS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; STREPTOMYCES OLIVACEOVIRIDIS;

EID: 0029945715     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1774-1780.1996     Document Type: Article

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