Nucleotide sequence of arfB of Clostridium stercorarium, and prediction of catalytic residues of α-L-arabinofuranosidases based on local similarity with several families of glycosyl hydrolases

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 337-343

  Zverlov, Vladimir V ^a   Liebl, Wolfgang ^b   Bachleitner, Marianne ^c   Schwarz, Wolfgang H ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium stercorarium; Glycosyl hydrolase family; Thermostable arabinofuranosidase

Indexed keywords

ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CLOSTRIDIUM STERCORARIUM;

EID: 0032528110     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00236-5     Document Type: Article

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