Structural basis of the properties of an industrially relevant thermophilic xylanase

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-86

  Harris, Gillian W ^a   Pickersgill, Richard W ^a   Connerton, Ian ^a   Debeire, Philippe ^b   Touzel, Jean Pierre ^b   Breton, Christelle ^b,c   Pérez, Serge ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHES SUR LES MACROMOLÉCULES VÉGÉTALES CERMAV CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Family G; Hydrophobic cluster; Sequence; Structure; Thermostability; Xylanase

Indexed keywords

XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PAPER; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE; XYLAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-XYLOSIDASE; XYLOSIDASES;

EID: 0030921675     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199709)29:1<77::AID-PROT6>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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