Symbiotic fungi produce laccases potentially involved in phenol degradation in fungus combs of fungus-growing termites in Thailand

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7696-7704

  Taprab, Yaovapa ^a,b   Johjima, Toru ^c   Maeda, Yoshimasa ^a   Moriya, Shigeharu ^a,c   Trakulnaleamsai, Savitr ^b   Noparatnaraporn, Napavarn ^b   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a,c   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,c,d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DNA; ENZYMES; PHENOLS; TERMITE RESISTANCE;

FUNGUS COMBS; FUNGUS-GROWING TERMITES; PHENOL-OXIDIZING ENZYMES; PLANT LITTER;

FUNGICIDES;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DITHIOTHREITOL; EDETIC ACID; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL RNA; LACCASE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

FUNGUS; SYMBIONT; TERMITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; THAILAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ISOPTERA; KINETICS; LACCASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOLS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES; MACROTERMES GILVUS; MACROTERMITINAE; MICROTERMES; ODONTOTERMES; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 29144452198     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.7696-7704.2005     Document Type: Article

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