Highly active and selective endopeptidases with programmed substrate specificities

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 290-294

  Varadarajan, Navin ^a,b   Rodriguez, Sarah ^a   Hwang, Bum Yeol ^b   Georgiou, George ^a,b   Iverson, Brent L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EPISTASIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 42249107490     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.80     Document Type: Article

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