Functional screening of hydrolytic activities reveals an extremely thermostable cellulase from a deep-sea archaeon

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Leis, Benedikt ^a   Heinze, Simon ^a   Angelov, Angel ^a   Trang Pham, Vu Thuy ^a   Thürmer, Andrea ^b   Jebbar, Mohamed ^c   Golyshin, Peter N ^d   Streit, Wolfgang R ^e   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Liebl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaeal endoglucanase; Enzymatic characterization; Extreme thermostable protein; Functional screenings

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; GENE ENCODING; HYDROLASES; MICROORGANISMS;

BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIALS; BROAD TEMPERATURE RANGES; CARBOXY-METHYL CELLULOSE; ENDOGLUCANASES; FUNCTIONAL SCREENING; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEA; PHOSPHORIC-ACID SWOLLEN CELLULOSE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

EID: 84947784718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00095     Document Type: Article

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