Clostripain linker deletion variants yield active enzyme in Escherichia coli: A possible function of the linker peptide as intramolecular inhibitor of clostripain automaturation

Current Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 281-286

  Witte, Volker ^a   Wolf, Norbert ^a   Dargatz, Harald ^a  

^a Weissheimer Research Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIPAIN; CORE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETTA;

EID: 0029911311     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900114     Document Type: Article

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