Purification and properties of an amidase from Rhodococcus erythropolis MP50 which enantioselectively hydrolyzes 2-arylpropionamides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3501-3507

  Hirrlinger, Beate ^a   Stolz, Andreas ^a   Knackmuss, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AROMATIC AMIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENANTIOMER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RHODOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERYTHROPOLIS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS;

EID: 0029996889     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.12.3501-3507.1996     Document Type: Article

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