Substrate specifity profiling of the Aspergillus fumigatus proteolytic secretome reveals consensus motifs with predominance of Ile/Leu and Phe/Tyr

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Watson, Douglas S ^a   Feng, Xizhi ^b   Askew, David S ^b   Jambunathan, Kalyani ^a   Kodukula, Krishna ^a   Galande, Amit K ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TYROSINE; AMINO ACID; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN MOTIF; SERUM; THERMOSTABILITY; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; HUMANS; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PHENYLALANINE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TYROSINE;

EID: 79959231641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021001     Document Type: Article

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