Purification and characterization of laccase from Chaetomium thermophilium and its role in humification

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3175-3179

  Chefetz, Benny ^a   Chen, Yona ^a   Hadar, Yitzhak ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHELATING AGENT; COPPER; GUAIACOL; LACCASE; PHENOL;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHAETOMIUM; CHELATION; COMPOSTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PH; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM THERMOPHILIUM; FUNGI;

EID: 0031717013     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3175-3179.1998     Document Type: Article

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