The "intracellular" poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) depolymerase of Rhodospirillum rubrum is a periplasm-located protein with specificity for native PHB and with structural similarity to extracellular PHB depolymerases

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 7243-7253

  Handrick, René ^a,b   Reinhardt, Simone ^a   Kimmig, Philipp ^a   Jendrossek, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; DIMER; HISTIDINE; OLIGOMER; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID) DEPOLYMERASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; SERINE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRIBUTYRIN; TRIOLEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; STRUCTURAL GENE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASM; POLYESTERS; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SOLUBILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; WAUTERSIA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 6044250287     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.21.7243-7253.2004     Document Type: Article

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