Cloning and targeted disruption of enpg-1, encoding the major in vitro extracellular endopolygalacturonase of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1984-1990

  Gao, Shaojian ^a,b   Choi, Gil H ^a,d   Shain, Louis ^c   Nuss, Donald L ^a,b  

^a HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGALACTURONASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0029980809     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.6.1984-1990.1996     Document Type: Article

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