Molecular characterization of laccase genes from the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus and heterologous expression of the laccase Lcc1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4943-4948

  Yaver, Debbie S ^a   Overjero, Maria Del Carmen ^b   Xu, Feng ^a   Nelson, Beth A ^a   Brown, Kim M ^a   Halkier, Torben ^b   Bernauer, Sheryl ^a   Brown, Stephen H ^a   Kauppinen, Sakari ^b  

^a NOVO NORDISK INC   (United States)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BENZOTHIAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; LACCASE; LYSINE; OXYGEN; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPRINUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH;

COPRINUS CINEREUS;

EID: 0032731212     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.4943-4948.1999     Document Type: Article

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