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SUBMITTER: Meneses C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6274478 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meneses Carlos C Silva Bruna B Medeiros Betsy B Serrato Rodrigo R Johnston-Monje David D
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20160625 7
Many naturally-occurring cellulolytic microorganisms are not readily cultivable, demanding a culture-independent approach in order to study their cellulolytic genes. Metagenomics involves the isolation of DNA from environmental sources and can be used to identify enzymes with biotechnological potential from uncultured microbes. In this study, a gene encoding an endoglucanase was cloned from red rice crop residues using a metagenomic strategy. The amino acid identity between this gene and its clo ...[more]