PapR peptide maturation: Role of the NprB protease in Bacillus cereus 569 PlcR/PapR global gene regulation

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-377

  Pomerantsev, Andrei P ^a   Pomerantseva, Olga M ^b   Camp, Andrew S ^a   Mukkamala, Radhika ^a   Goldman, Stanley ^b   Leppla, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus anthracis; Bacillus cereus; Peptide; PlcR PapR regulation; Protease; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; NEUTRAL PROTEINASE; NEUTRAL PROTEINASE B; PEPTIDE PAPR; PEPTIDE PLCR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 62149094271     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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