Isolation and characterization of genes encoding thermoactive and thermostable dextranases from two thermotolerant soil bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 327-333

  Finnegan, Patrick M ^a,d   Brumbley, Stevens M ^c   O'Shea, Michael G ^c   Nevalainen, Helena ^a   Bergquist, Peter L ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c BSES LIMITED   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DEXTRAN; DEXTRANASE; GLYCOSIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEAT TOLERANCE; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DEXTRANASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PAENIBACILLUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4444351859     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4308-5     Document Type: Article

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