Multiplicity and expression of xylanases in the rumen fungus Neocallimastix frontalis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-53

  Gomez De Segura, Béatrice ^a   Durand, Roger ^a   Fèvre, Michel ^a  

^a Centre de Genetique Moleculaire et Cellulaire   (France)

Author keywords

Expression of endoxylanase isoforms; Neocallimastix frontalis; Rumen anaerobic fungus

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME REPRESSION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDES; METHYLGLUCOSIDES; RABBITS; RUMEN; SHEEP; XYLAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-XYLOSIDASE; XYLOSIDASES;

FUNGI; NEOCALLIMASTIX FRONTALIS;

EID: 0345020388     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00190-6     Document Type: Article

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