Post-translational processing of Neisseria meningitidis γ-glutamyl aminopeptidase and its association with inner membrane facing to the cytoplasmic space

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-35

  Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamyl aminopeptidase; Glutamyl transpeptidase; Neisseria meningitidis; Post translational processing

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL FRACTIONATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; THREONINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 1942502333     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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