Thermozymes: Biotechnology and structure-function relationships

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 179-183

  Zeikus, J Gregory ^a   Vieille, Claire ^a   Savchenko, Alexei ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial enzymes; Protein stability; Thermophilicity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLASE; AMYLOPULLULANASE; BIOTECHNOLOGY RESOURCES; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STABILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE ISOMERASE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TARGETED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOPHILICITY; THERMOZYME;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA-AMYLASE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HEAT; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 0032142867     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050058     Document Type: Review

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