Purification and characterization of a rice class I chitinase, OsChia1b, produced in Esherichia coli

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 893-895

  Mizuno, Ryoji ^a   Itoh, Yoshikane ^a,d   Nishizawa, Yoko ^b   Kezuka, Yuichiro ^c   Suzuki, Kazushi ^a   Nonaka, Takamasa ^c   Watanabe, Takeshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Family 19 chitinase; Oryza sativa

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; CHITIN AFFINITY COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; ORYZA SATIVA;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; CELLS; CHITIN; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

CHITIN; CHITINASE; CHITINASE CHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RICE; SOLUBILITY; TRICHODERMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHITIN; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYPHAE; ORYZA SATIVA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUBILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRICHODERMA;

HYPOCREA JECORINA; JAPONICA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 41549100686     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.70693     Document Type: Article

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