Identification, characterization, and regulation of a novel antifungal chitosanase gene (cho) inanabaena spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2769-2777

  Gupta, Vishal ^a   Prasanna, Radha ^a   Natarajan, Chitra ^a   Srivastava, Ashish Kumar ^b   Sharma, Jitender ^c  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-FUNGAL; ANTI-FUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL EFFECT; CATALYTIC RESIDUE; CHITOSAN OLIGOSACCHARIDE; CHITOSANASE; CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES; DARK PERIODS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; LIGHT CONDITIONS; LIMITING CONDITION; PAIRWISE ALIGNMENT; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; PUTATIVE SIGNAL PEPTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIFIC PRIMERS; STATIONARY PHASE;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SUGARS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CHITOSAN; CHITOSANASE; GLYCOSIDASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

CATALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME; FUNGUS; GENE; GROWTH REGULATOR; HYDROLYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITOSAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGOSACCHARIDES;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SPHAERICA; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; ANABAENA VARIABILIS ATCC 29413; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 77951532673     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02673-09     Document Type: Article

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