β-galactosidase stability at high substrate concentrations

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Warmerdam, Anja ^a   Boom, Remko M ^a   Janssen, Anja E M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus circulans; Concentrated systems; Enzyme activity; Enzyme stability; Galacto oligosaccharides; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887311071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-402     Document Type: Article

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