Industrial microbial enzymes: Their discovery by screening and use in large-scale production of useful chemicals in Japan

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 367-375

  Ogawa, Jun ^a   Shimizu, Sakayu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; HYDROXYPROLINE; INDUSTRIAL ENZYME; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; LEVODOPA; LINOLEIC ACID; MICROBIAL ENZYME; NITRILE; OXYGENASE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PYROPHOSPHATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; RICINOLEIC ACID; TYROSINE PHENOL LYASE;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; JAPAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036669691     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(02)00331-2     Document Type: Review

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