Cloning and analysis of WF146 protease, a novel thermophilic subtilisin-like protease with four inserted surface loops

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 251-258

  Wu, Jiang ^a   Bian, Yan ^a   Tang, Bing ^a   Chen, Xiangdong ^a   Shen, Ping ^a   Peng, Zhenrong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus sp.; Serine protease; Subtilisin; Thermophile; Thermostability; WF146 protease

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CASEIN; PEPTIDE; PROLINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN WF 146; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SUBTILISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC CODE; HALF LIFE TIME; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN VARIANT; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS; BACILLUS SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 1642522064     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00914-5     Document Type: Article

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