Pseudomurein endoisopeptidases PeiW and PeiP, two moderately related members of a novel family of proteases produced in Methanothermobacter strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-51

  Luo, Yongneng ^a   Pfister, Peter ^a   Leisinger, Thomas ^a   Wasserfallen, Alain ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archaeon; Enzyme characterization; Metal activated protease; Methanothermobacter; Pseudomurein endoisopeptidase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HISTAMINE; PEPTIDASE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN PEIP; PROTEIN PEIW; PROTEINASE; THIOL PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOTHERMOBACTER MARBURGENSIS; METHANOTHERMOBACTER WOLFEII; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EDETIC ACID; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METHANOTHERMOBACTER; METHANOTHERMOBACTER MARBURGENSIS; METHANOTHERMOBACTER WOLFEII;

EID: 0037133362     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00581-X     Document Type: Article

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