Expression, characterization and structural modelling of a feruloyl esterase from the thermophilic fungus Myceliophthora thermophila

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 399-411

  Topakas, Evangelos ^a   Moukouli, Maria ^a   Dimarogona, Maria ^a   Christakopoulos, Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ferulic acid esterase; Heterologous expression; Myceliophthora thermophila; Pichia pastoris; Structural modelling

Indexed keywords

FERULIC ACID ESTERASE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MYCELIOPHTHORA THERMOPHILA; PICHIA PASTORIS; STRUCTURAL MODELLING;

CLONING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTERIFICATION; HYDROLYSIS; SUBSTRATES; SUGARS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; YEAST;

ESTERS;

ESTERASE; FERULIC ACID ESTERASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; GENOMIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SUBSTRATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CLONING; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HYDROLYSIS; MYCELIOPHTHORA THERMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PICHIA PASTORIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPOROTHRIX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PICHIA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SORDARIALES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CORYNASCUS HETEROTHALLICUS; FUNGI; PICHIA PASTORIS; TRICHODERMA LONGIBRACHIATUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84862651303     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3612-9     Document Type: Article

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