Characterization of chitinase C from a marine bacterium, Alteromonas sp. strain O-7, and its corresponding gene and domain structure

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 472-478

  Tsujibo, Hiroshi ^a   Orikoshi, Hideyuki ^a   Shiotani, Kayoko ^a   Hayashi, Miyuki ^a   Umeda, Junko ^a   Miyamoto, Katsushiro ^a   Imada, Chiaki ^b   Okami, Yoshiro ^b   Inamori, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL CHEMISTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITINASE C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTEROMONAS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALTEROMONAS; ALTEROMONAS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM;

EID: 0031952063     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.472-478.1998     Document Type: Article

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