A chitinase gene, chiB, involved in the autolytic process of Aspergillus nidulans

Current Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-98

  Yamazaki, Harutake ^a   Yamazaki, Daisuke ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a,b   Takagi, Masamichi ^a,c   Ohta, Akinori ^a   Horiuchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Autolysis; Chitin; Chitinase

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHITINASE; CHITINASE B; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; AUTOLYSIS; CARBON SOURCE; DNA ISOLATION; DRY WEIGHT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINATION; GLUCOSE ASSAY; GROWTH RATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN; CHITINASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI;

EID: 33846461673     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0109-7     Document Type: Article

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