Experimental proof for a signal peptidase I like activity in Mycoplasma pneumoniae, but absence of a gene encoding a conserved bacterial type I SPase

FEBS Journal

Volumn 272, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2892-2900

  Catrein, Ina ^a   Herrmann, Richard ^a   Bosserhoff, Armin ^a   Ruppert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical assisted fragmentation (CAF); Mass spectrometry; Protein modification; Signal peptidase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P40; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE I;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC CODE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYME PRECURSORS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SULFONIC ACIDS;

MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 20444451279     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04710.x     Document Type: Article

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