Molecular cloning and characterization of a cellulase gene from a symbiotic protist of the lower termite, Coptotermes formosanus

Gene

Volumn 349, Issue , 2005, Pages 67-75

  Inoue, Tetsushi ^a,c   Moriya, Shigeharu ^a,b   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA library; Cellulose degradation; Glycosyl hydrolase; Spirotrichonympha leidy

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CELLULASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONGO RED; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; GLYCOSIDASE; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CELL ACTIVITY; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMIC IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPIROTRICHONYMPHA LEIDYE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 17044412101     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.11.048     Document Type: Article

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