Purification and cloning of an extracellular serine protease from the nematode-trapping fungus Monacrosporium cystosporium

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 852-858

  Yang, Jin Kui ^a   Ye, Feng Ping ^a   Mi, Qi Li ^a   Tang, Song Qing ^a   Li, Juan ^a   Zhang, Ke Qin ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gene cloning; Monacrosporium cystosporium; Nematicidal activity; Protease; Purification

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CASEIN; FUNGAL ENZYME; GELATIN; MONACROSPORIUM CYSTOSPORIUM PROTEIN 1; N SUCCINYLALANYLALANYLPROLYLPHENYLALANINE 4 NITRIC ACID; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENE STRUCTURE; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONACROSPORIUM CYSTOSPORIUM; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANAGRELLUS REDIVIVUS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME STABILITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BOVINAE; BURSAPHELENCHUS; BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS; FUNGI; MONACROSPORIUM CYSTOSPORUM; NEMATODA; PANAGRELLUS REDIVIVUS;

EID: 50249173831     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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