Cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding chitinase ChiA from Xanthomonas sp. strain AK and some properties of ChiA

Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 527-533

  Sakka, Kazuo ^a   Kusaka, Ryo ^a   Kawano, Akihiro ^a   Karita, Shuichi ^a   Sukhumavasi, Jiraporn ^b   Kimura, Tetsuya ^a   Ohmiya, Kunio ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b THAILAND INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Chitin binding domain; Chitinase; Cloning; Fibronectin type III domain; Nucleotide sequence; Xanthomonas

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES;

CHITIN BINDING DOMAIN; CHITINASE; XANTHOMONAS;

ENZYMES;

CHITIN; CHITINASE; FIBRONECTIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURAL GENE; XANTHOMONAS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0032419956     PISSN: 0922338X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0922-338X(99)80001-4     Document Type: Article

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