A novel heat-stable lipolytic enzyme from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius DSM 639 displaying similarity to polyhydroxyalkanoate depolymerases

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-73

  Arpigny, Jean Louis ^a   Jendrossek, Dieter ^b   Jaeger, Karl Erich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Inst fuer Mikrobiologie und Genetik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Polyhydroxyalkanoate depolymerase; Sulfolobus acidocaldarius; Thermophilic esterase

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; SERINE DEHYDRATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; ENZYME STABILITY; ESTERASES; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HEAT; LIPOLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 0032189604     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00375-9     Document Type: Article

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