Isolation of cellulolytic activities from Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6710-6715

  Rehman, Fayyaz Ur ^a   Aslam, Mehwish ^a   Tariq, M Ilyas ^a   Shaheen, Ashraf ^a   Sami, Amtul Jamil ^b   Naveed, Naima Huma ^a   Batool, Aima Iram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cellulolytic enzymes; Endoglucanase; Insect cellulase; Red flour beetle; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CELLULASE; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOMASS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCREENING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRIBOLIUM; ZYMOGRAPHY;

HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 74549118356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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