Characterization of an extracellular serine protease gene from the nematophagous fungus Lecanicillium psalliotae

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1329-1334

  Yang, Jinkui ^a   Huang, Xiaowei ^a   Tian, Baoyu ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Duan, Junxin ^b   Wu, Wenping ^b   Zhang, Keqin ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Novozymes (China) Investment Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Gene cloning; Lecanicillium psalliotae; Serine protease; Similarity comparison

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DNA; FUNGI; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CDNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACELLULAR SERINE PROTEASE GENE; GENE ENCODING; POLYMORPHISMS;

ENZYMES;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

FUNGI; LECANICILLIUM PSALLIOTAE; VERTICILLIUM PSALLIOTAE;

EID: 26444527487     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-005-0482-1     Document Type: Article

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