Purification and molecular cloning of a chitinase expressed in the hepatopancreas of the penaeid prawn Penaeus japonicus

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1382, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-185

  Watanabe, Toshiki ^a   Kono, Michiko ^a   Aida, Katsumi ^b   Nagasawa, Hiromichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Crustacean; Hepatopancreas; Penaeus

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HEPATOPANCREAS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; MARSUPENAEUS JAPONICUS; PENAEIDAE; PENAEUS; PENAEUS JAPONICUS;

EID: 0037792061     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(97)00184-2     Document Type: Article

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