Role of disulfide bridges in the activity and stability of a cold-active α-amylase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6206-6212

  Siddiqui, Khawar Sohail ^a   Poljak, Anne ^a   Guilhaus, Michael ^a   Feller, Georges ^b   D'Amico, Salvino ^b   Gerday, Charles ^b   Cavicchioli, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CYSTEINE; IODOACETAMIDE; IODOACETIC ACID; MERCAPTOETHANOL;

ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ENTHALPY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALPHA-AMYLASE; COLD; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; ENZYME STABILITY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS;

EID: 24344448645     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.17.6206-6212.2005     Document Type: Article

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