Incorporation of fungal cellulases in bacterial minicellulosomes yields viable, synergistically acting cellulolytic complexes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3822-3832

  Mingardon, Florence ^a   Chanal, Angélique ^a   López Contreras, Ana M ^b   Dray, Cyril ^a,e   Bayer, Edward A ^c   Fierobe, Henri Pierre ^a,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; DOCKERIN; ENDOGLUCANASE; FUNGAL CELLULASES; MINICELLULOSOMES;

BACTERIA; BINDING SITES; COMPLEXATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FUNGI; PROTEINS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULASE; CELLULASE 5D; CELLULASE 6A; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSOME; DOCKERIN; FAMILY 5 ENDOGLUCANASE; FAMILY 9 ENDOGLUCANASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; MINICELLULOSOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CELLULOSE; ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SYNERGISM;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NEOCALLIMASTIX; NEOCALLIMASTIX PATRICIARUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLULASES; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSOMES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; KINETICS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NEOCALLIMASTIX; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOLYTICUM; NEOCALLIMASTIX PATRICIARUM;

EID: 34250878420     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00398-07     Document Type: Article

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