Utilization of Escherichia coli Outer-Membrane Endoprotease OmpT Variants as Processing Enzymes for Production of Peptides from Designer Fusion Proteins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-86

  Okuno, Kazuaki ^a,b   Yabuta, Masayuki ^a   Ooi, Toshihiko ^b   Kinoshita, Shinichi ^b  

^a DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYMES; HORMONES; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

CLEAVAGE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ARGINYLARGINYLARGINYLALANYLARGINYLMOTILIN; CALCITONIN DERIVATIVE; CORTICOTROPIN; ENDOPROTEASE OMPT; HISTIDINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; MOTILIN; PHENYLALANINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN XAA; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTILIN; MUTATION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDES; PORINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347761192     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.76-86.2004     Document Type: Article

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