Purification, characterization, and sequencing of an extracellular cold-active aminopeptidase produced by marine psychrophile Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3321-3328

  Huston, Adrienne L ^a,c   Methe, Barbara ^b   Deming, Jody W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENZYMES; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYMERS; PURIFICATION;

COLD-ACTIVE EXTRACELLULAR PROTEASES; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES (EPS); MESOPHILIC MEMBERS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINOPEPTIDASE; LEUKOTRIENE A4 HYDROLASE; PROTEINASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COLD; COLWELLIA PSYCHRERYTHRAEA; DATA BASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MAMMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINOPEPTIDASES; COLD; CULTURE MEDIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLWELLIA; COLWELLIA PSYCHRERYTHRAEA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 2942560270     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3321-3328.2004     Document Type: Article

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