Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa metalloendopeptidase, Mep72, a member of the Vfr regulon

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Balyimez, Aysegul ^a   Colmer Hamood, Jane A ^a   San Francisco, Michael ^a   Hamood, Abdul N ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CYCLIC AMP; MEP72 PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PA2782 PROTEIN; PA2783 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; VFR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INVERTED REPEAT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BINDING SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; OPERON; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84888221457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-269     Document Type: Article

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