Cloning and targeted disruption of MLG1, a gene encoding two of three extracellular mixed-linked glucanases of Cochliobolus carbonum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 385-391

  Görlach, Jenifer M ^a,b   Van Der Knaap, Esther ^a   Walton, Jonathan D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; COCHLIOBOLUS CARBONUM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN;

COCHLIOBOLUS CARBONUM; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PROKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0042412981     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.385-391.1998     Document Type: Article

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