Cloning, expression, and purification of functional Sec11a and Sec11b, type I signal peptidases of the archaeon Haloferax volcanii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1911-1919

  Fine, Amir ^a   Irihimovitch, Vered ^a   Dahan, Idit ^a   Konrad, Zvia ^a   Eichler, Jerry ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; GENE PRODUCT; SEC11A PROTEIN; SEC11B PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEC11A GENE; SEC11B GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII;

EID: 33644748569     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.5.1911-1919.2006     Document Type: Article

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