Cloning, sequencing, and expression of an endoglucanase gene from the rumen anaerobic fungus neocallimastix frontalis MCH3

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1795-1798

  Fujino, Yuko ^a,b   Ogata, Koretsugu ^a   Nagamine, Takafumi ^a   Ushida, Kazunari ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaerobic fungi; Dockerin domain; Endoglucanase; Neocallimastix frontalis

Indexed keywords

CELA ENDOGLUCANASE; CELLULASE; FUNGAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RUMINANT STOMACH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLULASE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RUMEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032153693     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.62.1795     Document Type: Article

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