Purification and Characterization of a Novel Thermostable Chitinase from Thermomyces lanuginosus SY2 and Cloning of Its Encoding Gene

Agricultural Sciences in China

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1458-1465

  GUO, Run fang ^a   SHI, Bao sheng ^a   LI, Duo chuan ^b   MA, Wen ^a   WEI, Qing ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^b SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; purification; Thermomyces lanuginosus SY2; thermostable chitinase

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; THERMOMYCES LANUGINOSUS;

EID: 57749206494     PISSN: 16712927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(08)60403-4     Document Type: Article

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