Production of a fully functional, permuted single-chain penicillin G acylase

Protein Science

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1677-1683

  Flores, Gabriela ^a   Soberón, Xavier ^a   Osuna, Joel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Circular permutation; Penicillin acylase; Posttranslational processing; Sec secretion; Tat secretion

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; PENICILLIN G ACYLASE; POLYPEPTIDE; TETRAPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN AMIDASE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 2442697593     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.03436604     Document Type: Article

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