Unprecedented rates and efficiencies revealed for new natural split inteins from metagenomic sources

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 28686-28696

  Carvajal Vallejos, Patricia ^a   Pallissé, Roser ^a   Mootz, Henning D ^b   Schmidt, Stefan R ^a  

^a ERA Biotech   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; C-TERMINAL FRAGMENTS; CLEAVAGE REACTION; CROSS-REACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; INTEINS; MODEL PROTEINS; PRECURSOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN-SPLICING; REACTION CONDITIONS; SIDE REACTIONS; SPLIT-INTEINS; TRANS-SPLICING;

BIOINFORMATICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

REACTION RATES;

EXTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTEIN; PROTEIN GP41 1; PROTEIN GP41 8; PROTEIN IMPDH 1; PROTEIN NRDJ 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; METAGENOMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS SPLICING;

INTEINS; METAGENOME; MUTATION; PROTEIN SPLICING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84865201923     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.372680     Document Type: Article

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