Characterization of a salt-tolerant family 42 β-galactosidase from a psychrophilic antarctic Planococcus isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2438-2444

  Sheridan, Peter P ^a   Brenchley, Jean E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANOCOCCUS; POND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS CIRCULANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034080264     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2438-2444.2000     Document Type: Article

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