Partial purification of (1,3)-β-glucan synthase from Candida albicans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 255-261

  Frost, David ^a   Brandt, Kim ^a   Estill, Carol ^a   Goldman, Robert ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

(1,3) glucan synthase; Candida albicans; product entrapment; solubilization

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCAN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILIZATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; DETERGENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSOMES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0031017918     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00485-5     Document Type: Article

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