Sequencing, cloning and expression of a β-1,4-mannanase gene, manA, from the extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacterium, Caldicellulosiruptor Rt8B.4

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-43

  Gibbs, Moreland D ^a,b   Elinder, Anna U ^a   Reeves, Rosalind A ^a,b   Bergquist, Peter L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caldicellulosiruptor; Mannanase; Pulp bleaching

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,4 MANNANASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

EID: 0030585812     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00201-7     Document Type: Article

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