Essentiality of a newly identified carbohydrate-binding module for the function of CelB (BH0603) from the alkaliphilic bacterium Bacillus halodurans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 6851-6853

  Wamalwa, Benson Munyali ^a,b   Sakka, Makiko ^a   Shiundu, Paul Mwanza ^b   Ohmiya, Kunio ^a   Kimura, Tetsuya ^a   Sakka, Kazuo ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATES; CATALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

AVICEL; HYDROLYTIC FUNCTION; MODULAR GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASE;

CERIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALKALI; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; CELLULASE; GLYCOSIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CELB; PROTEIN PFAMB; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; CHEMICAL BINDING; ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS HALODURANS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALKALIES; BACILLUS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM;

BACILLUS HALODURANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33750066332     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01209-06     Document Type: Article

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