Terminal truncations in Amp C β-lactamase from a clinical isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 478-485

  Walther Rasmussen, Jan ^a,b   Johnsen, Anders H ^a   Høiby, Niels ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Department of Clinical Microbiology ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

lactamase; C terminal truncation; N terminal truncation; pI different variants

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAMASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATOFOCUSING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0033565729     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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