The bglA gene of Aspergillus kawachii encodes both extracellular and cell wall-bound β-glucosidases

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5546-5553

  Iwashita, Kazuhiro ^a   Nagahara, Tatsuya ^a   Kimura, Hitoshi ^a   Takano, Makoto ^a   Shimoi, Hitoshi ^a   Ito, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BREWING   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CELL WALL; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME;

ASPERGILLUS KAWACHII;

EID: 0032736467     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.12.5546-5553.1999     Document Type: Article

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