A novel family 9 endoglucanase gene (celD), whose product cleaves substrates mainly to glucose, and its adjacent upstream homolog (celE) from Fibrobacter succinogenes S85

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 898-906

  Malburg Jr , Laercio M ^a,b   Iyo, Abiye H ^a   Forsberg, Cecil W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUCAN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RUMEN MICROORGANISM;

EID: 0030052410     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.3.898-906.1996     Document Type: Article

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