CLONING AND PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF THE CHIA GENE FROM AEROMONAS-CAVIAE

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SITRIT, Y
VORGIAS, CE
CHET, I
OPPENHEIM, AB
机构
[1] HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM,HADASSAH MED SCH,DEPT MOLEC GENET,IL-91120 JERUSALEM,ISRAEL
[2] HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM,FAC AGR,OTTO WARBURG CTR AGR BIOTECHNOL,IL-76100 REHOVOT,ISRAEL
[3] EUROPEAN MOLEC BIOL LAB,D-22603 HAMBURG,GERMANY
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10.1128/jb.177.14.4187-4189.1995
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
The chiA gene from Aeromonas caviae encodes an extracellular chitinase, 865 amino acids long, that shows a high degree of similarity to chitinase A of Serratia marcescens. Expression in Escherichia coli yielded an enzymatically active protein from which a leader sequence was removed, presumably during transport of the enzyme across the cell membrane.
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页码:4187 / 4189
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