Crystal Structure of Chitinase ChiW from Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7 Reveals a Novel Type of Bacterial Cell-Surface-Expressed Multi-Modular Enzyme Machinery

• Takafumi Itoh ,

  * E-mail: ito-t@fpu.ac.jp (TI); kimoto@fpu.ac.jp (HK)

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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• Takao Hibi,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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• Fumiko Suzuki,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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• Ikumi Sugimoto,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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• Akihiro Fujiwara,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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• Koji Inaka,

  Affiliation Maruwa Foods and Biosciences Inc., Yamatokoriyama, Nara, Japan

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• Hiroaki Tanaka,

  Affiliation Confocal Science Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazunori Ohta,

  Affiliation Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yutaka Fujii,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Fukui, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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• Akira Taketo,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Biotechnological Frontier Engineering, Fukui University of Technology, Fukui, Fukui, Japan

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• Hisashi Kimoto

  * E-mail: ito-t@fpu.ac.jp (TI); kimoto@fpu.ac.jp (HK)

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan

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