Purification and characterization of α-galactosidase from sunflower seeds

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 353-358

  Kim, Wook Dong ^a   Kaneko, Satoshi ^b   Park, Gwi Gun ^c   Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Kusakabe, Isao ^a   Kobayashi, Hideyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

galactosidase; Classification; Galactomanno oligosaccharides; Substrate specificity; Sunflower seeds

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUNFLOWER;

ALPHA-GALACTOSIDASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIANTHUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIANTHUS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MORTIERELLA; UMBELOPSIS VINACEA; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0242669375     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022337012865     Document Type: Article

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