Replacements of amino acid residues at subsites and their effects on the catalytic properties of Rhizomucor pusillus pepsin, an aspartic proteinase from Rhizomucor pusillus

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 791-794

  Aikawa, Jun Ichi ^a,d   Park, Young Nam ^a,e   Sugiyama, Masakazu ^a,f   Nishiyama, Makoto ^b   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a   Beppu, Teruhiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspartic proteinase; Milk clotting enzyme; Rhizomucorpusillus pepsin; Site directed mutagenesis; Subsites

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; COAGULATING AGENT; ISOVALINE; PEPSIN A; PEPSTATIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MILK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOMUCOR MIEHEI; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS;

EID: 0034986675     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a002921     Document Type: Article

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