Identification and characterization of an aspartyl protease from Cryptococcus neoformans

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 3882-3886

  Pinti, Marcello ^a   Orsi, Carlotta Francesca ^a   Gibellini, Lara ^a   Esposito, Roberto ^b   Cossarizza, Andrea ^a   Blasi, Elisabetta ^a   Peppoloni, Samuele ^a   Mussini, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AIDS; Aspartyl protease; C. neoformans; Opportunistic infections; Protease inhibitors

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INDINAVIR; LOPINAVIR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN CNAP1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RITONAVIR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 34547116868     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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