Biochemical properties and substrate specificities of a recombinantly produced Azotobacter vinelandii alginate lyase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3779-3784

  Ertesvåg, Helga ^a,c   Erlien, Frode ^a   Skjåk Bræk, Gudmund ^a   Rehm, Bernd H A ^b   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Unigen Center of Molecular Biology   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; LYASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031830749     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.15.3779-3784.1998     Document Type: Article

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