Isolation and expression in Escherichia coli of cslA and cslB, genes coding for the chondroitin sulfate-degrading enzymes chondroitinase AC and chondroitinase B, respectively, from Flavobacterium heparinum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-35

  Tkalec, Ana Lydia ^a   Fink, Dominique ^a,b   Blain, Françoise ^a   Zhang Sun, Guiyi ^a   Laliberte, Maryse ^a,c   Bennett, D Clark ^a,d   Gu, Kangfu ^a,e   Zimmermann, Joseph J F ^a,f   Su, Hongsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^c BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

^f Millennium Three Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM HEPARINUM;

EID: 0033986003     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.1.29-35.2000     Document Type: Article

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