Purification and properties of a new psychrophilic metalloprotease (Fpp2) in the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-279

  Secades, P ^a   Alvarez, B ^a   Guijarro, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fish; Flavobacterium psychrophilum; Metalloprotease; Pathogen; Psychrophilic

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CASEIN; HYDROLASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; AZOCASEIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COLD; ENERGY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SALMONID; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; SALMONIDAE;

CALCIUM; CASEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME STABILITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0642347021     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00599-8     Document Type: Article

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