Identification of a laccase gene family in the new lignin-degrading basidiomycete CECT 20197

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2637-2646

  Mansur, Mariana ^a,c   Suárez, Teresa ^b   Fernández Larrea, Juan B ^a,d   Brizuela, María A ^a,c   González, Aldo E ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Inst Cubano Invest Derivados C   (Cuba)

^d DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; LACCASE; LIGNIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PEROXIDASE; VERATRYL ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASIDIOMYCETES; CULTURE MEDIUM; DECOLORIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ARUNDINARIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; POLYPORACEAE; SACCHARUM; TRAMETES; TRAMETES SP. I-62;

EID: 0342894811     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.7.2637-2646.1997     Document Type: Article

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