The substrate specificity of Metarhizium anisopliae and Bos taurus carboxypeptidases A: Insights into their use as tools for the removal of affinity tags

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-61

  Austin, Brian P ^a   Tözsér, József ^b   Bagossi, Péter ^b   Tropea, Joseph E ^a   Waugh, David S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Affinity tag; Carboxypeptidase; His tag; Polyhistidine tag; Protease

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; HISTIDINE; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYHISTIDINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AFFINITY LABELING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METARHIZIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AFFINITY LABELS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES A; CATTLE; HISTIDINE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METARHIZIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 79951959644     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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