Purification, characterisation and mode of action of an endo-polygalacturonase from the psychrophilic fungus Mucor flavus

Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 321-330

  Gadre, Ramchandra V ^a,c   Van Driessche, Gonzalez ^b   Van Beeumen, Jozef ^b   Bhat, Mahalingeshwara K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Mode of action; N terminal sequence; PGL; Psychrophilic fungus; Stability; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

ESTERIFICATION; FUNGI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC ACIDS; PURIFICATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ESTERIFIED PICTINS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CARBOHYDRATE; PECTIN; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYGALACTURONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESTERIFICATION; FUNGUS; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUCOR; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

FUNGI; MUCOR;

EID: 0347297442     PISSN: 01410229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0229(02)00291-0     Document Type: Article

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