Plant cell calcium-rich environment enhances thermostability of recombinantly produced α-amylase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritime

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 947-956

  Santa Maria, Monica C ^a,c   Chou, Chung Jung ^b   Yencho, G Craig ^a   Haigler, Candace H ^a   Thompson, William F ^a   Kelly, Robert M ^b   Sosinski, Bryon ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Hyperthermophilic enzymes; Starch processing; Tobacco NT1 cell cultures; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; COFACTORS; E. COLI; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIA; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ENZYMES; IN-PLANTS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; INITIAL ACTIVITY; MODEL SYSTEM; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED; PLANT CELLS; PROCESS COSTS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; STARCH PROCESSING; SUGAR SYRUPS; SWEET POTATO; THERMOSTABLE ENZYMES; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TOBACCO CELLS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

BIOFUELS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CATALYSTS; CELL MEMBRANES; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; LIQUEFACTION; PLANT CELL CULTURE; STARCH; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS; TOBACCO;

CELL CULTURE;

AMYLASE; CALCIUM; STARCH; SUGAR;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; LIQUEFACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

ALPHA-AMYLASES; CALCIUM; COENZYMES; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOT TEMPERATURE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; IPOMOEA BATATAS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 70350532559     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22468     Document Type: Article

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