Cloning of the gene encoding a novel thermostable α-galactosidase from Thermus brockianus ITI360

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3955-3963

  Fridjonsson, Olafur ^a   Watzlawick, Hildegard ^a   Gehweiler, Axel ^a   Rohrhirsch, Thilo ^a   Mattes, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; AMINO ACID; GLYCOSIDASE; MELIBIOSE; PYRANOSIDE; RAFFINOSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; THERMOTOGA NEAPOLITANA; THERMUS BROCKIANUS;

EID: 0032876272     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3955-3963.1999     Document Type: Article

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