Molecular characterization of fervidolysin, a subtilisin-like serine protease from the thermophilic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennivorans

Extremophiles

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 185-194

  Kluskens, Leon D ^a   Voorhorst, Wilfried G B ^a   Siezen, Roland J ^b   Schwerdtfeger, Ruth M ^c   Antranikian, Garabed ^c   Van Der Oost, John ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fervidobacterium pennivorans; Keratinase; Serine protease; Site directed mutagenesis; Thermostable

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERVIDOBACTERIUM PENNIVORANS;

PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0036595837     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100239     Document Type: Article

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