Improving the thermostability of raw-starch-digesting amylase from a Cytophaga sp. by site-directed mutagenesis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2383-2385

  Shiau, Rong Jen ^a   Hung, Hui Chen ^a   Jeang, Chii Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; MICROBIOLOGY; STARCH; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

AMYLASE;

ENZYMES;

AMINO ACID; AMYLASE; CALCIUM; STARCH;

ENZYME; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOSTABILITY; WILD TYPE;

AMYLASES; CYTOPHAGA; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE DELETION; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; STARCH;

CYTOPHAGA; CYTOPHAGA SP.; FLEXIBACTERACEAE;

EID: 0037393130     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2383-2385.2003     Document Type: Article

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