Purification and characterization of exo-β-d-glucosaminidase from a cellulolytic fungus, Trichoderma reesei PC-3-7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 890-895

  Nogawa, Masahiro ^a   Takahashi, Hiroya ^a   Kashiwagi, Aya ^a   Ohshima, Kenji ^a   Okada, Hirofumi ^a   Morikawa, Yasushi ^a  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITOSANASE; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; GLUCOSAMINIDASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

ANION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGUS CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRICHODERMA REESEI;

EID: 0031951409     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.3.890-895.1998     Document Type: Article

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