Hydroxynitrile lyases: Functions and properties

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 891-898

  Hickel, Andrea ^a   Hasslacher, Meinhard ^a   Griengl, Herfried ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biochemical properties; Enzyme mechanism; Function; Hydroxynitrile lyase; Industrial application

Indexed keywords

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; LINACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; OLACACEAE; POACEAE; ROSACEAE;

EID: 0030441331     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1996.tb06700.x     Document Type: Article

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