Pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus: Cloning and overexpression in Escherichia coli of the gene, and its application to protein sequence analysis

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 778-783

  Tsunasawa, Susumu ^a   Nakura, Satomi ^a   Tanigawa, Tetsuo ^a   Kato, Ikunoshin ^a  

^a TAKARA SHUZO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Hyperthermostable enzyme; Ionspray mass spectrometry; Pyrococcus furiosus; Pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidase

Indexed keywords

5 OXOPROLYL PEPTIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METHIONINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PYROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THERMOCOCCUS LITORALIS;

EID: 0031769523     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022179     Document Type: Article

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