Cloning, characterization, expression and antifungal activity of an alkaline serine protease of Aureobasidium pullulans PL5 involved in the biological control of postharvest pathogens

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-464

  Zhang, Dianpeng ^a   Spadaro, Davide ^a   Valente, Silvia ^a   Garibaldi, Angelo ^a   Gullino, Maria Lodovica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aureobasidium pullulans; Biological control; Botrytis cinerea; Monilinia laxa; Penicillium expansum; Postharvest

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PROTEINASE; ALKALINE SERINE PROTEASE; CASEIN; HISTIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLONING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROLYSIS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POSTHARVEST PERIOD; TEMPERATURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; BOTRYTIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLONING, ORGANISM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUIT; HYDROLYSIS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PENICILLIUM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERINE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEASES;

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MONILINIA LAXA; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 84855973444     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: 18793460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2011.12.016     Document Type: Article

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