Improvement of an unusual twin-arginine transporter leader peptide by a codon-based randomization approach

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3797-3801

  Monroy Lagos, Olga ^a   Soberon, Xavier ^a   Gaytan, Paul ^a   Osuna, Joel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

RANDOM MUTAGENESIS; TWIN-ARGININE TRANSPORTER;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALANINE; AMIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; LEUCINE; LYSINE; PENICILLIN ACYLASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THREONINE; TWIN ARGININE TRANSPORTER LEADER PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; FECAL COLIFORM; MUTAGENICITY; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PAC GENE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; RANDOMIZATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; PENICILLIN AMIDASE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646594980     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3797-3801.2006     Document Type: Article

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