6-phospho-α-D-glucosidase from Fusobacterium mortiferum: Cloning, expression, and assignment to family 4 of the glycosylhydrolases

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 4129-4137

  Bouma, Carolyn L ^a   Reizer, Jonathan ^b   Reizer, Aiala ^b   Robrish, Stanley A ^c   Thompson, John ^c,d  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 METHYL UMBELLIFERYL D ALPHA GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 6 PHOSPHATE; 4 NITROPHENYL ALPHA D GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 6 PHOSPHATE; 5 PHOSPHO ALPHA D GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; HYDROLASE; MALTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIUM MORTIFERUM;

EID: 0030808276     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.13.4129-4137.1997     Document Type: Article

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