Expression, purification and characterisation of two variant cysteine peptidases from Trypanosoma congolense with active site substitutions

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 264-271

  Pillay, Davita ^a   Boulangé, Alain F ^a,b   Coetzer, Theresa H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Cysteine peptidase; Pichia pastoris; Trypanosoma congolense

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PICHIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

ANIMALIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 77957753368     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2010.06.021     Document Type: Article

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