Cloning and expression of the gene encoding an extracellular alkaline serine protease from Vibrio alginolyticus strain HY9901, the causative agent of vibriosis in Lutjanus erythopterus (Bloch)

Journal of Fish Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 493-500

  Cai, S H ^a,b,c,d   Wu, Z H ^b,c   Jian, J C ^b,c   Lu, Y S ^b,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Guangdong Key Laboratory of Control for Diseases of Aquatic Economic Animals   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Activation; Asp gene; Gene expression; Lutjanus erythopterus; Toxicity; Vibrio alginolyticus

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; LD 50; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCIFORMES; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LETHAL DOSE 50; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCIFORMES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LUTJANUS; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 34447548917     PISSN: 01407775     EISSN: 13652761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2761.2007.00835.x     Document Type: Article

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