Novel α-Amylase That Is Highly Resistant to Chelating Reagents and Chemical Oxidants from the Alkaliphilic Bacillus Isolate KSM-K38

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1744-1750

  Hagihara, Hiroshi ^a   Igarashi, Kazuaki ^a   Hayashi, Yasuhiro ^a   Endo, Keiji ^a   Ikawa Kitayama, Kaori ^a   Ozaki, Katsuya ^a   Kawai, Shuji ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CHELATING AGENT; EDETIC ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDIZING AGENT; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; BACILLUS; CHELATING AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EDETIC ACID; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDANTS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035318737     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1744-1750.2001     Document Type: Article

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