Cloning, characterization and functional expression of an alkalitolerant type C feruloyl esterase from Fusarium oxysporum

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-254

  Moukouli, Maria ^a   Topakas, Evangelos ^a   Christakopoulos, Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alkalitolerant; Expression; Feruloyl esterase; Fusarium oxysporum; Gene cloning; Pichia pastoris

Indexed keywords

ALKALITOLERANT; FERULOYL ESTERASE; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; PICHIA PASTORIS;

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; YEAST;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ALCOHOL OXIDASE; ALKYL GROUP; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; COUMARIC ACID; ESTER DERIVATIVE; ESTERASE; FERULIC ACID; FERULOYL ESTERASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME; GLYCOSIDE; MATING HORMONE ALPHA FACTOR; METHYL GROUP; NITRO DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

CLONE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; TOLERANCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AOX1 GENE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PAPER INDUSTRY; PH; PICHIA PASTORIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PULP MILL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA LONGIBRACHIATUM; WHEAT BRAN;

CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COUMARIC ACIDS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; PICHIA PASTORIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRICHODERMA LONGIBRACHIATUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 42549139751     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-008-1432-3     Document Type: Article

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