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Cloning, expression, and characterization of a highly thermostable family 18 chitinase from Rhodothermus marinus.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions - 1 Feb 2005
Hobel Cédric F V, Hreggvidsson Gudmundur O, Marteinsson Viggó T, Bahrani-Mougeot Farah, Einarsson Jón M, Kristjánsson Jakob K
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A family 18 chitinase gene chiA from the thermophile Rhodothermus marinus was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1,131 nucleotides encoding a protein of 377 amino acids with a calculated molecular weight of 42,341 Da. The deduced ChiA was a non-modular enzyme with one unique glycoside hydrolase family 18 catalytic domain. The catalytic domain exhibited 43%...
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