Effects of truncation at the non-homologous region of a family 3 β-glucosidase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1113-1118

  Ying, Li ^a,b   Kitaoka, Motomitsu ^a   Hayashi, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Family 3 glucosidase; Transglycosylation; Truncated mutant

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME STABILITY; GLYCOSYLATION; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE DELETION;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 4544331931     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.1113     Document Type: Article

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