Functional analysis of propeptide as an intramolecular chaperone for in vivo folding of subtilisin nattokinase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 4789-4796

  Jia, Yan ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Bao, Wei ^a   Weng, Meizhi ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Cai, Yongjun ^a   Zheng, Zhongliang ^a   Zou, Guolin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

In vivo; Intramolecular chaperone; Molecular dynamics simulation; Protein folding; Protein memory; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; PEPTIDE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SUBTILISIN NATTOKINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBTILISINS;

EID: 78649677343     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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