Enzymatic and molecular properties of the Clostridium tertium sialidase

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1101-1110

  Grobe, Kay ^a,b   Sartori, Birte ^a,c   Traving, Christina ^a   Schauer, Roland ^a   Roggentin, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c ABBOTT GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium tertium; Phylogeny of sialidases; Putative acylneuraminate pyruvate lyase gene; Sialidase gene; Sialidase properties

Indexed keywords

LYASE; MERCURY; SIALIDASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM TERTIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROBDELLA DECORA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032433531     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022227     Document Type: Article

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