Cloning and molecular characterization of chitinase from Bacillus licheniformis MS-3

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-246

  Mostafa, Salah A ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed S ^b   Mohamed, Zeinat K ^b   Enan, Mohamed R ^a,c  

^a Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Bacillus licheniformis; Chitinase; Gene cloning; Nucleotide sequence

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS;

EID: 67749106462     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.55.241     Document Type: Article

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