Active Subtilisin-Like Protease from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon in a Form with a Putative Prosequence

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2445-2452

  Kannan, Yuji ^a   Koga, Yuichi ^a   Inoue, Yohei ^a   Haruki, Mitsuru ^a   Takagi, Masahiro ^a   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^b   Morikawa, Masaaki ^a   Kanaya, Shigenori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUBTILISIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME STABILITY; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUBTILISINS; THERMOCOCCUS;

EID: 0035379692     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.6.2445-2452.2001     Document Type: Article

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