Cloning and sequencing of a high-alkaline pectate lyase gene from an alkaliphilic bacillus isolate

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 998-1005

  Hatada, Yuji ^a   Higaki, Norihiko ^a   Saito, Kazuhiro ^a   Ogawa, Akinori ^a   Sawada, Kazuhisa ^a   Ozawa, Tadahiro ^a   Hakamada, Yoshihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Tohru ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkaliphile; Amino acid sequence; Bacillus; PCR; Taxonomy; Trans elimination

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; BACTERIAL DNA; PECTATE LYASE; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALKALIES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033146309     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.998     Document Type: Article

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