Arabinoxylan degradation by fungi: Characterization of the arabinoxylan-arabinofuranohydrolase encoding genes from Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus tubingensis

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 22-29

  Gielkens, Marco M C ^a   Visser, Jaap ^a   De Graaff, Leo H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabinofuranohydrolase; Arabinoxylan; Aspergillus; axhA expression; Gene structure; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ARABINITOL; ARABINOSE; GLUCOSE; HYDROLASE; XYLAN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABINOSE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUGAR ALCOHOLS; XYLANS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. SPELTA;

EID: 0031039671     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050172     Document Type: Article

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