Conversion of neopullulanase-α-amylase from Thermoactinomyces vulgaris r-47 into an amylopullulanase-type enzyme

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 275-282

  Ibuka, Akiko ^a   Tonozuka, Takashi ^b,c   Matsuzawa, Hiroshi ^a   Sakai, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amylopullulanase; Neopullulanase amylase; Pullulanase; Site directed mutagenesis; amylase

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMYLASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUTAMINE; MALTOTRIOSE; PULLULANASE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOACTINOMYCES VULGARIS;

THERMOACTINOMYCES VULGARIS;

EID: 0031888533     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021933     Document Type: Article

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