Optimization of protease secretion in bacillus subtilis and bacillus licheniformis by screening of homologousand heterologous signal peptides

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6370-6376

  Degering, Christian ^a,b   Eggert, Thorsten ^b   Puls, Michael ^b   Bongaerts, Johannes ^c   Evers, Stefan ^c   Maurer, Karl Heinz ^c   Jaeger, Karl Erich ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Evocatal GmbH   (Germany)

^c HENKEL KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; N-TERMINALS; PRODUCTION STRAIN; SECRETED PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUBTILIS; SUBTILISIN; TARGET PROTEINS;

BACTERIOLOGY; MACHINERY; PEPTIDES; STRAIN;

GENE ENCODING;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SUBTILISIN;

BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SECRETION;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SECRETION;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBTILISINS;

BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 78049311718     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01146-10     Document Type: Article

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