The thermostabilizing domain of the modular xylanase XynA of Thermotoga maritima represents a novel type of binding domain with affinity for soluble xylan and mixed-linkage β-1,3/β-1,4-glucan

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 898-912

  Meissner, Kirsten ^a   Wassenberg, Doris ^b   Liebl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; GLUCAN; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLOBIOSE; XYLOPENTAOSE; XYLOSE; XYLOTRIOSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME STABILITY; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BETA-GLUCANS; BINDING SITES; CELLULOSE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCANS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; XYLANS; XYLOSIDASES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0034127278     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01909.x     Document Type: Article

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