Alpha-amylase gene of thermophilic Streptomyces sp. TO1: Nucleotide sequence, transcriptional and amino acid sequence analysis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-23

  Mellouli, Lotfi ^a   Ghorbel, Raoudha ^a   Virolle, Marie Joelle ^b   Bejar, Samir ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrophobicity; Proline residue; Sequence comparison; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; STREPTOMYCES; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES SP.; STREPTOMYCES THERMOVIOLACEUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032032257     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00585-5     Document Type: Article

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