Cloning and expression of two chitin deacetylase genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 327-336

  Mishra, Chitra ^a   Semino, Carlos E ^a   Mccreath, Kenneth J ^b   De La Vega, Humberto ^a   Jones, Beverly J ^a   Specht, Charles A ^a   Robbins, Phillips W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CDA1 gene; CDA2 gene; chitin; chitin deacetylase; chitinase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030896122     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19970330)13:4<327::AID-YEA96>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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