Production of a novel and cold-active killer toxin by Mrakia frigida 2E00797 isolated from sea sediment in Antarctica

Extremophiles

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 515-521

  Hua, Ming Xia ^a   Chi, Zhe ^a   Liu, Guang Lei ^a   Buzdar, Muhammad Aslam ^a   Chi, Zhen Ming ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cold active enzymes; Killer toxin; Pathogenic yeast; Psychrotolerant yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; YEAST KILLER FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOTA; BRACHYURA; COLD; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; METSCHNIKOWIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOTA; BRACHYURA; COLD TEMPERATURE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; KILLER FACTORS, YEAST; METSCHNIKOWIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA; MRAKIA FRIGIDA;

EID: 78149501344     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-010-0331-6     Document Type: Article

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