A Computational Module Assembled from Different Protease Family Motifs Identifies PI PLC from Bacillus cereus as a Putative Prolyl Peptidase with a Serine Protease Scaffold

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rendón Ramírez, Adela ^a   Shukla, Manish ^b   Oda, Masataka ^c   Chakraborty, Sandeep ^b   Minda, Renu ^b   Dandekar, Abhaya M ^d   Ásgeirsson, Bjarni ^e   Goñi, Félix M ^a   Rao, Basuthkar J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PROLINE IMINOPEPTIDASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEROS DATABASE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATIC ELECTRICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84881116053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070923     Document Type: Article

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