A thermostable leucine aminopeptidase from Bacillus kaustophilus CCRC 11223

Extremophiles

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-87

  Lin, Long Liu ^a   Hsu, Wen Hwei ^b   Wu, Cheng Pu ^b   Chi, Meng Chun ^a   Chou, Wei Mou ^a   Hu, Hui Yu ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacillus kaustophilus; Gene cloning; Leucine aminopeptidase; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; GEOBACILLUS KAUSTOPHILUS; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 4644310881     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-003-0364-1     Document Type: Article

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