New endo-β-1,4-glucanases from the parabasalian symbionts, Pseudotrichonympha grassii and Holomastigotoides mirabile of Coptotermes termites

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1983-1992

  Watanabe, H ^a   Nakashima, K ^b   Saito, H ^a   Slaytor, M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Cloning; Formosan termite; GHF7; Parabasal

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOON; SYMBIONT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLULASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; COPTOTERMES LACTEUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOLOMASTIGOTOIDES MIRABILE; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; PARABASALIDEA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOTRICHONYMPHA GRASSII;

EID: 0036866038     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012520     Document Type: Article

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