Cathepsin, a major protease of the marine sponge Geodia cydonium: Purification of the enzyme and molecular cloning of cDNA

Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 296-307

  Krasko, Anatoli ^a   Gamulin, Vera ^b   Seack, Jürgen ^a   Steffen, Renate ^a   Schröder, Heinz C ^a   Müller, Werner E G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATHEPSINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; KINETICS; LYSOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GEODIA CYDONIUM; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PORIFERA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 0031450624     PISSN: 10536426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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