Purification and properties of a second fructan exohydrolase from the roots of Cichorium intybus

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-34

  De Roover, Joke ^a   Van Laere, André ^a   De Winter, Marie ^a   Timmermans, Johan W ^b   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a Botany Institute   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 KESTOSE; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CONCANAVALIN A; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME INHIBITOR; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYMIC HYDROLYSIS; FRUCTAN EXOHYDROLASE; FRUCTOSE; GEL FILTRATION; INULIN; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SIZE; PH; PRECIPITATION; SDS POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CICHORIUM INTYBUS;

EID: 0032969759     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.106104.x     Document Type: Article

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