Use of laccase as a novel, versatile reporter system in filamentous fungi

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 5020-5026

  Mander, Gerd J ^a,b   Wang, Huaming ^e   Bodie, Elizabeth ^e   Wagner, Jens ^a,b   Vienken, Kay ^a,b   Vinuesa, Claudia ^c   Foster, Caroline ^d   Leeder, Abigail C ^d   Allen, Gethin ^d   Hamill, Valerie ^e   Janssen, Giselle G ^e   Dunn Coleman, Nigel ^e   Karos, Marvin ^f   Lemaire, Hans Georg ^f   Subkowski, Thomas ^f   Bollschweiler, Claus ^f   Turner, Geoffrey ^d   Nüsslein, Bernhard ^c   Fischer, Reinhard ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c Nadicom GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^f BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSTS; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; ELECTRONS; FUNGI; GENES;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; LACCASE; LIGNO-CELLULOLYTIC ASCOMYCETE STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

ENZYMES;

2,2' AZINOBIS(3 ETHYLBENZTHIAZOLINESULFONATE); 3,5 DIMETHYLANILINE; 4 AMINO 2,6 DIBROMOPHENOL; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; COPPER; LACCASE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN LCCB; PROTEIN LCCC; PROTEIN LCCD; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; REPORTER GENE; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; TRICHODERMA REESEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BENZOTHIAZOLES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLULASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LACCASE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STACHYBOTRYS; SULFONIC ACIDS; TRICHODERMA;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; HYPOCREA JECORINA; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 33746093898     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00060-06     Document Type: Article

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