Identification and expression of GH-8 family chitosanases from several Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-141

  Lee, Han Seung ^a,b   Jang, Jun Sung ^a   Choi, Soo Keun ^a,c   Lee, Dong Woo ^d   Kim, Eui Joong ^a   Jung, Heung Chae ^a,c   Pan, Jae Gu ^a,c  

^a GenoFocus Inc   (South Korea)

^b Silla University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Chitosan oligosaccharides; Chitosanase; GH 8; High throughput screening

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; CHITOSAN DERIVATIVE; CHITOSANASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEROTYPE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHITOSAN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 36349019671     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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