Activation profiles of the zymogen of aspergilloglutamic peptidase

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-133

  Huang, Xiang Ping ^a   Yabuki, Yutaka ^a   Kojima, Masaki ^a   Inoue, Hideshi ^a   Takahashi, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamic peptidase; Processing; Propeptide; Recombinant protein; Refolding; Zymogen activation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPERGILLOGLUTAMIC PEPTIDASE; ENZYME; ENZYME PRECURSOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CATALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER VAR. MACROSPORUS;

EID: 33846179294     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2007.014     Document Type: Article

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