Cloning and expression of a pectate lyase from the oral spirochete Treponema pectinovorum ATCC 33768

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 385-390

  Walker, Stephen G ^a   Ryan, Maria E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Oral treponeme; Pectate lyase; Pectinase; Periodontal disease; Spirochete; Treponema pectinovorum

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CALCIUM ION; PECTATE LYASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; ZINC ION; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ENZYME ACTIVATOR; ENZYME INHIBITOR; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ZINC SULFATE;

ALKALINITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPIROCHETE; TRANSPOSON; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PECTINOVORUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPIROCHAETALES; TRANSPOSONS; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PECTINOVORUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TREPONEMA; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 0642316126     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00639-6     Document Type: Article

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