Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the Pullulanase Gene of Thermus thermophilus HB8 and Production of the Enzyme in Escherichia coli

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2090-2094

  Tomiyasu, Kanae ^b   Yato, Kumiko ^b   Yasuda, Megumi ^b   Tonozuka, Takashi ^a,b   Ibuka, Akiko ^b   Sakai, Hiroshi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Debranching enzyme; Gene cloning; Inverse PCR; Pullulanase; Thermus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

GLYCOSIDASE; PULLULANASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0035462559     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.2090     Document Type: Article

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