A xylanase produced by the rumen anaerobic protozoan Polyplastron multivesiculatum shows close sequence similarity to family 11 xylanases from Gram-positive bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 145-152

  Devillard, Estelle ^a,b   Newbold, C James ^a   Scott, Karen P ^a   Forano, Evelyne ^b   Wallace, R John ^a   Jouany, Jean Pierre ^b   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Polyplastron multivesiculatum; Protozoa; Rumen; Xylanase

Indexed keywords

XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE ISOLATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CELL; POLYPLASTRON MULTIVESICULATUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RUMINANT STOMACH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLUCANS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RUMEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XYLAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-XYLOSIDASE; XYLANS; XYLOSIDASES;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; POLYPLASTRON MULTIVESICULATUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032723601     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00525-X     Document Type: Article

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