Identification of a novel periplasmic catalase-peroxidase KatA of Legionella pneumophila

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 339-344

  Amemura Maekawa, Junko ^a   Mishima Abe, Sakurako ^a,b   Kura, Fumiaki ^a   Takahashi, Tomoko ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

katA; katG; Pathogenic bacterium; Recombinant DNA; Respiratory burst; Signal peptide

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CATALASE; PEROXIDASE; RECOMBINANT DNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEROXIDASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 0033038306     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00254-2     Document Type: Article

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