Molecular cloning, functional expression, and mutagenesis of cDNA encoding rye (secale cereale) seed chitinase-c

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 277-284

  Ohnuma, Takayuki ^a   Yagi, Mikako ^a   Yamagami, Takeshi ^a   Taira, Toki ^a   Aso, Yoichi ^a   Ishiguro, Masatsune ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Cdna cloning; Expression; Mutagenesis; Rye seed chitinase

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SECALE CEREALE; TRICHODERMA;

CHITINASE; CHITINASE C; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RYE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECALE CEREALE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036483503     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.277     Document Type: Article

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