Unusual microbial xylanases from insect guts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3609-3617

  Brennan, YaLi ^a   Callen, Walter N ^a   Christoffersen, Leif ^a   Dupree, Paul ^d   Goubet, Florence ^d   Healey, Shaun ^a   Hernández, Myrian ^b   Keller, Martin ^a   Li, Ke ^a   Palackal, Nisha ^a   Sittenfeld, Ana ^c   Tamayo, Giselle ^b,c   Wells, Steve ^a   Hazlewood, Geoffrey P ^a   Mathur, Eric J ^a   Short, Jay M ^a   Robertson, Dan E ^a   Steer, Brian A ^a  

^a DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; INSECT CONTROL; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES;

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; INTESTINAL TRACT; POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES;

ENZYMES;

XYLAN; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLOSE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS; BIOTOPE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; ISOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PIROMYCES; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; FUNGI; GENE LIBRARY; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIROMYCES; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 2942533967     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3609-3617.2004     Document Type: Article

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