An intracellular protease of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus, which has sequence similarity to eukaryotic peptidases of the CD clan

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 357-363

  Guagliardi, Annamaria ^a   Cerchia, Laura ^a   Rossi, Mosè ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaea; Hyperthermophile; Protease; Protein degradation; Sulfolobus

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLUORESCENCE; MICROORGANISMS; PH EFFECTS; PROTEINS;

PROTEOLYTIC MACHINES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ALKALINITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CALCULATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFOLOBUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037113122     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20021017     Document Type: Article

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