Differential expression of three α-galactosidase genes and a single β- galactosidase gene from Aspergillus niger

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2453-2460

  De Vries, Ronald P ^a   Van Den Broeck, Hetty C ^a   Dekkers, Ester ^a   Manzanares, Paloma ^a,c   De Graaff, Leo H ^a   Visser, Jaap ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Inst Agroquimica y Technologia A ^*  (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FRUCTOSE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; XYLOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033050120     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.6.2453-2460.1999     Document Type: Article

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