Mode of action and antifungal properties of two cold-adapted chitinases

Extremophiles

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 385-390

  Mavromatis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Lorito, Matteo ^c   Woo, Sheridan L ^c   Bouriotis, Vassilis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomer separation; Botrytis cinerea; Chitinase; Chitooligomers; Endochitinase; Exochitinase

Indexed keywords

ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER SP.; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CHITIN; CHITINASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS; COLD; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BOTRYTIS; CHITIN; CHITINASE; COLD; OLIGOSACCHARIDES;

EID: 3042781874     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-003-0338-3     Document Type: Article

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