Propionibacterium acnes, a resident of lipid-rich human skin, produces a 33 kDa extracellular lipase encoded by gehA

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1745-1755

  Miskin, James E ^a   Farrell, Angela M ^b   Cunliffe, William J ^c   Holland, Keith T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acne; Colonization factor; Lipase; Molecular cloning; Nucleotide sequence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUCROSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SKIN FLORA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

EID: 0030943795     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-5-1745     Document Type: Article

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