Cloning, expression and biochemical characterisation of a unique thermostable pullulan-hydrolysing enzyme from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus aggregans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 223-229

  Niehaus, Frank ^a   Peters, Anke ^a   Groudieva, Tatiana ^a   Antranikian, Garabed ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaeon; Pullulan hydrolase; Starch; Thermococcales

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; MALTOSE; MALTOTRIOSE; PULLULAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS AGGREGANS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STARCH; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCOCCUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; THERMOCOCCALES; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS AGGREGANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034666611     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00339-6     Document Type: Article

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