Purification and identification of a novel leucine aminopeptidase from Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 413-419

  Cahan, Rivka ^a   Hetzroni, Efrat ^a,b   Nisnevitch, Marina ^a   Nitzan, Yeshayahu ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; BESTATIN; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; DIETHYLAMINOETHYL CELLULOSE; DITHIOTHREITOL; METALLOPROTEINASE; SEPHAROSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS ISRAELENSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HEATING; HEMOLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SUPERNATANT; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DITHIOTHREITOL; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCINE; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENANTHROLINES; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS;

EID: 35148814598     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-9004-9     Document Type: Article

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