Nickel serves as a substrate recognition motif for the endopeptidase involved in hydrogenase maturation

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1995-1999

  Theodoratou, Ekaterini ^a   Paschos, Athanasios ^a   Magalon, Axel ^a   Fritsche, Erich ^b   Huber, Robert ^b   Böck, August ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endopeptidase; Hydrogenase maturation; Nickel; Processing

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NICKEL; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HYDROGENASE; NICKEL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034031960     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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