Molecular and industrial aspects of glucose isomerase

Microbiological Reviews

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 280-300

  Bhosale, Snehalata H ^a   Rao, Mala B ^a   Deshpande, Vasanti V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE ISOMERASE;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; INHIBITION KINETICS; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029998291     PISSN: 01460749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.60.2.280-300.1996     Document Type: Review

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