Roles of four chitinases (ChiA, ChiB, ChiC, and ChiD) in the chitin degradation system of marine bacterium Alteromonas sp. strain O-7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1811-1815

  Orikoshi, Hideyuki ^a   Nakayama, Shigenari ^a   Miyamoto, Katsushiro ^a   Hanato, Chiaki ^a   Yasuda, Masahide ^a   Inamori, Yoshihiko ^a   Tsujibo, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; CHITIN; GENES; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; RNA;

ENZYMATIC PROPERTIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ENZYME KINETICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHITIN; CHITINASE; HYDROLASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ENZYME;

ALTEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTEROMONAS; CHITIN; CHITINASE; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROLYSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17444406353     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.4.1811-1815.2005     Document Type: Article

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