Purification and some properties of cellulase from odontotermes formosanus (isoptera: Termitidae)

Insect Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Yang, Tian Ci ^a   Mo, Jian Chu ^a   Cheng, Jia An ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Endoglucanase; Enzyme purification; Odontotermes formosanus; Two dimentional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444514691     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2004.tb00174.x     Document Type: Article

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