Purification and Characterization of a Psychrophilic, Calcium-Induced, Growth-Phase-Dependent Metalloprotease from the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2436-2444

  Secades, P ^a   Alvarez, B ^a   Guijarro, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLD; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FISH DISEASE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PH; SALMONID;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; COLD; ENZYME STABILITY; FISH DISEASES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; SALMONIDAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035375081     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.6.2436-2444.2001     Document Type: Article

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