Cloning, sequencing, expression, and characterization of protealysin, a novel neutral proteinase from Serratia proteamaculans representing a new group of thermolysin-like proteases with short N-terminal region of precursor

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 551-561

  Demidyuk, Ilya V ^a   Kalashnikov, Alexander E ^a   Gromova, Tatiana Yu ^b   Gasanov, Eugene V ^a   Safina, Dina R ^a   Zabolotskaya, Maria V ^a   Rudenskaya, Galina N ^c   Kostrov, Sergey V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MIREA RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Molecular cloning; Propeptide; Protein motif; Protein precursor; Protein purification; Signal peptide; Thermolysin like proteinase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THERMOLYSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SERRATIA; THERMOLYSIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA PROTEAMACULANS;

EID: 33646589351     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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