Three multidomain esterases from the cellulolytic rumen anaerobe Ruminococcus flavefaciens 17 that carry divergent dockerin sequences

The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AJ238716 (cesA) and AJ272430 (xynE).

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