Genes encoding two different β-glucosidases of Thermoanaerobacter brockii are clustered in a common operon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3902-3910

  Breves, Roland ^a   Bronnenmeier, Karin ^b   Wild, Norbert ^b   Lottspeich, F ^c   Staudenbauer, Walter L ^b   Hofemeister, Jürgen ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GROWTH REGULATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; THERMOANAEROBACTER BROCKII; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMOANAEROBACTER BROCKII;

EID: 0030816427     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.3902-3910.1997     Document Type: Article

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