In vitro folding, purification and characterization of Escherichia coli outer membrane protease OmpT

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 885-893

  Kramer, R A ^b   Zandwijken, Davika ^b   Egmond, Maarten R ^b   Dekker, Niek ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

In vitro folding; OmpT; Outer membrane protein; Protease; Purification

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; DETERGENT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROMETRY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INCLUSION BODIES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0000983237     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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