Cold-adapted yeasts as producers of cold-active polygalacturonases

Extremophiles

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 185-193

  Birgisson, Hákon ^a,b   Delgado, Osvaldo ^a,c   Arroyo, Leticia García ^a   Hatti Kaul, Rajni ^a   Mattiasson, Bo ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Prokaria   (Iceland)

^c PLANTA PILOTO DE PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES MICROBIOLÓGICOS PROIMI CONICET   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cold adaptation; Cryptococcus aquaticus; Cryptococcus macerans; Cystofilobasidium capitatum; Cystofilobasidium lari marini; Polygalacturonase

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCOCCUS AQUATICUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS MACERANS; CYSTOFILOBASIDIUM; CYSTOFILOBASIDIUM CAPITATUM; CYSTOFILOBASIDIUM LARI-MARINI;

CARBON; DNA; ISOPROTEIN; PECTIN; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYGALACTURONIC ACID; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME; YEAST;

CARBON; COLD; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PECTINS; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; YEASTS;

EID: 0345671157     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-002-0310-7     Document Type: Article

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