Molecular cloning and transcriptional regulation of the Aspergillus nidulans xlnD gene encoding a β-xylosidase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1412-1419

  Pérez González, José A ^a   Van Peij, Noël N M E ^b   Bezoen, Alja ^b   Maccabe, Andrew P ^a   Ramón, Daniel ^a   De Graaff, Leo H ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; HYPOCREA JECORINA; MYXOGASTRIA; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 0344447058     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1412-1419.1998     Document Type: Article

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