Gene cloning, nucleotide sequence and biochemical properties of a cytoplasmic cyclomaltodextrinase (neopullulanase) from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius, reclassification of a group of enzymes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-61

  Matzke, Jutta ^a   Herrmann, Anja ^b   Schneider, Erwin ^b   Bakker, Evert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Biologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amylase family; Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius; Amylopullulanase; Cyclomaltodextrinase; Neopullulanase; Sub cellular location

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYCLOMALTODEXTRINASE; NEOPULLULANASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PULLULAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALICYCLOBACILLUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL PH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCANS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ALICYCLOBACILLUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033978303     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00630-8     Document Type: Article

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