Identification of two novel esterases from a marine metagenomic library derived from South China Sea

@article{Chu2008IdentificationOT,
  title={Identification of two novel esterases from a marine metagenomic library derived from South China Sea},
  author={Xinmin Chu and Haoze He and C. Guo and Baolin Sun},
  journal={Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology},
  year={2008},
  volume={80},
  pages={615-625}
}
The demand for novel biocatalysts is increasing in modern biotechnology, which greatly stimulates the development of powerful tools to explore the genetic resources in the environment. Metagenomics, a culture independent strategy, provides an access to valuable genetic resources of the uncultured microbes. In this study, two novel esterase genes designated as estA and estB, which encoded 277- and 328-amino-acid peptides, respectively, were isolated from a marine microbial metagenomic library by… 
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