Heterologous expression and site-directed mutagenesis studies on the activation mechanism and the roles of the basic residues in the prosegment of aspergillopepsinogen I

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 719-725

  Inoue, Hideshi ^a,b   Hayashi, Takaharu ^a   Huang, Xiang Ping ^a   Lu, Jing Fang ^a   Athauda, Senarath B P ^a   Kong, Kwang Hoon ^a   Yamagata, Hideo ^b   Udaka, Shigezo ^c   Takahashi, Kenji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspartic proteinase; Aspergillus niger; Bacillus brevis; Folding; Prosequence

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS NIGER VAR. MACROSPORUS; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BREVIBACILLUS BREVIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTANT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0029979080     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0719p.x     Document Type: Article

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