Cloning of feather-degrading minor extracellular protease from Bacillus cereus DCUW: Dissection of the structural domains

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2049-2057

  Ghosh, Abhrajyoti ^a,b   Chakrabarti, Krishanu ^a   Chattopadhyay, Dhrubajyoti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; MINOR EXTRACELLULAR PROTEASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; SUBTILISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VPR PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEATHER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RABBIT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEATHERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 67650708257     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.027573-0     Document Type: Article

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