Aspartyl proteases in Caenorhabditis elegans. Isolation, identification and characterization by a combined use of affinity chromatography, two- dimensional gel electrophoresis, microsequencing and databank analysis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 872-879

  Geier, Gebhard ^c   Banaj, Hans Jörg ^c   Heid, Hans ^a   Bini, Luca ^c   Pallini, Vitaliano ^c   Zwilling, Robert ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Aspartyl proteases; Caenorhabditis elegans; Databank analysis; Two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0001234053     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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