Enzymatic properties of a novel liquefying α-amylase from an alkaliphilic Bacillus isolate and entire nucleotide and amino acid sequences

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3282-3289

  Igarashi, Kazuaki ^a   Hatada, Yuji ^a   Hagihara, Hiroshi ^a   Saeki, Katsuhisa ^a   Takaiwa, Mikio ^a   Uemura, Takaaki ^a   Ara, Katsutoshi ^a   Ozaki, Katsuya ^a   Kawai, Shuji ^a   Kobayashi, Tohru ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CARBOHYDRATE; HEXOSE; MALTOSE; MALTOTRIOSE; METAL ION; PENTOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; STRUCTURAL GENE; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031657848     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3282-3289.1998     Document Type: Article

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