Titration and Mapping of the Active Site of Cysteine Proteinases from Porphyromonas gingivalis (Gingipains) Using Peptidyl Chloromethanes

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 223-230

  Potempa, Jan ^a   Pike, Robert ^b   Travis, James ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Affinity Labeling; Enzyme Inhibition; Pathogenecity; Periodontitis; Proteolytic Enzyme; Virulence Factors

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GINGIPAIN; LYSINE; PEPTIDE CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; HEMAGGLUTININS; KINETICS; PEPTIDES; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PORPHYROMONAS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 0031008093     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.3-4.223     Document Type: Article

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