Shewasin A, an active pepsin homolog from the bacterium Shewanella amazonensis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3177-3186

  Simões, Isaura ^a,b   Faro, Rosário ^a   Bur, Daniel ^c   Kay, John ^d   Faro, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Biocant Biotechnology Innovation Center   (Portugal)

^c ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS LTD   (Switzerland)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aspartic proteinase; bacteria; pepsin like

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; PEPSTATIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SHEWASIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA AMAZONENSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; PEPSIN A; PEPSTATINS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SHEWANELLA; SOLUBILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA AMAZONENSIS;

EID: 84860417467     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08243.x     Document Type: Article

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