Exocellular proteases of Malbranchea gypsea and their role in keratin deterioration

Mycopathologia

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 147-150

  Singh, Chandra Jeet ^a,b  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Bioconversion; Biomass; Catabolite repression; Colonization; Decomposition; Ecosystem; Environment; Keratinases; Prote ases

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; ASPARAGINE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXOCELLULAR PROTEASE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; KERATIN; MALTOSE; MANNOSE;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CULTURE MEDIA; ENDOPEPTIDASES; INDIA; KERATINS; ONYGENALES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SKIN; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

AVES; BUBALUS; FUNGI; MALBRANCHEA GYPSEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032445989     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006968600404     Document Type: Article

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