A unique chitinase with dual active sites and triple substrate binding sites from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus kodakaraensis KOD1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5338-5344

  Tanaka, Takeshi ^a   Fujiwara, Shinsuke ^b   Nishikori, Shingo ^b   Fukui, Toshiaki ^a   Takagi, Masahiro ^b   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DELETION MUTANT; GENETIC CODE; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0032728411     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.12.5338-5344.1999     Document Type: Article

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