Structural bioinformatics of Vibrio cholerae aminopeptidase A (PepA) monomer

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-45

  Lutfullah, Ghosia ^a   Azhar, Noreen ^a   Amin, Farhat ^a   Khan, Zahid ^a   Azim, M Kamran ^b   Shouqat, Khalida ^b   Noor, Sajid ^b   Ali, Rizwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

3D structure; Aminopeptidase (PepA) Vibrio cholerae; DNA binding; Homohexamer; Homology modeling; Protein degradation

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

GLUTAMYL AMINOPEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GLUTAMYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 61549104714     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986609787049484     Document Type: Article

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