Growth phase-dependent production of a cell wall-associated elastinolytic cysteine proteinase by Staphylococcus epidermidis

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 385, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 525-535

  Oleksy, Aneta ^a,b   Golonka, Ewa ^a   Bańbuła, Agnieszka ^a,b   Szmyd, Grzegorz ^a   Moon, Jonathan ^b   Kubica, Małgorzata ^a   Greenbaum, Doron ^c   Bogyo, Matthew ^c   Foster, Timothy J ^d   Travis, James ^b   Potempa, Jan ^a,b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cysteine protease; Elastase; Staphopain; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; STAPHOPAIN A; STAPHOPAIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL SURFACE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ELASTIN; ENZYME STABILITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REDUCING AGENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 3242781863     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2004.062     Document Type: Article

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