Cellulosomes: Plant-cell-wall-degrading enzyme complexes

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 541-551

  Doi, Roy H ^a   Kosugi, Akihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CELL PROTEIN; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSOME; SUGAR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELLULOSE BINDING PROTEIN A, CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOVORANS; CELLULOSOME, CLOSTRIDIUM; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL WALL; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; ENZYME BINDING; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FUNGUS; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; CLOSTRIDIUM; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PLANTS;

EID: 3142757398     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro925     Document Type: Review

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