Diversity of glycosyl hydrolases from cellulose-depleting communities enriched from casts of two earthworm species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5934-5946

  Beloqui, Ana ^a   Nechitaylo, Taras Y ^b   López Cortés, Nieves ^a   Ghazi, Azam ^a   Guazzaroni, María Eugenia ^a   Polaina, Julio ^c   Strittmatter, Axel W ^d   Reva, Oleg ^e   Waliczek, Agnes ^b   Yakimov, Michail M ^f   Golyshina, Olga V ^b,g   Ferrer, Manuel ^a   Golyshin, Peter N ^b,g,h  

^a INSTITUTO DE CATÁLISIS Y PETROLEOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^d Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; BACTERIAL COMPOSITION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CELLOBIOHYDROLASES; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; EARTHWORM SPECIES; ENCODING GENES; GALACTOSIDASES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; HYPOTHETICAL PROTEIN; INOCULA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MULTI DOMAINS; PLANT LITTER; POLYMERIC SUBSTRATE; PUBLIC DATABASE; RHIZOBIALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; USAGE PATTERNS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOHYDRATES; CELLULOSE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

ENZYMES;

BACTERIAL DNA; CELLULOSE; GLYCOSIDASE;

BACTERIUM; CELLULOSE; EARTHWORM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLASMID; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FECES; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CELLULOSE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; APORRECTODEA CALIGINOSA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CELLVIBRIO; COMAMONADACEAE; EUKARYOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 77956580439     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00902-10     Document Type: Article

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