Engineering of a cold-adapted protease by sequential random mutagenesis and a screening system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 492-495

  Taguchi, Seiichi ^a   Ozaki, Akiyoshi ^a   Momose, Haruo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE; SUBTILISIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SCREENING TEST; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031938211     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.492-495.1998     Document Type: Article

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