Homologous and heterologous expression and maturation processing of extracellular glutamyl endopeptidase of Staphylococcus epidermidis

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 389, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1209-1217

  Ohara Nemoto, Yuko ^a   Ono, Toshio ^a   Shimoyama, Yu ^b   Kimura, Shigenobu ^b   Nemoto, Takayuki K ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Prepro segment; Recombinant protein; Signal sequence; Staphylococcus epidermidis; Thermolysin; V8 protease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMYL ENDOPEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; THERMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 54049137972     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2008.137     Document Type: Article

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