Identification of amino acid residues essential for the catalytic reaction of Bacillus kaustophilus leucine aminopeptidase

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1794-1797

  Chi, Meng Chun ^a   Chou, Wei Mou ^a   Hsu, Wen Hwei ^b   Lin, Long Liu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active site residues; Bacillus kaustophilus; Leucine aminopeptidase; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS KAUSTOPHILUS;

EID: 4644225483     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.1794     Document Type: Article

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