Protein engineering of chit42 towards improvement of chitinase and antifungal activities

Current Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 495-502

  Kowsari, Mojegan ^a,b   Motallebi, Mostafa ^a   Zamani, Mohammadreza ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRAN ABRII   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BINDING SITES; CHITIN; CHITINASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 84893941074     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-013-0494-3     Document Type: Article

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