Isolation and identification of an extracellular subtilisin-like serine protease secreted by the Bat Pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Pannkuk, Evan L ^a,b   Risch, Thomas S ^a   Savary, Brett J ^a,b  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; CONCANAVALIN A; SERINE PROTEINASE; SUBTILISIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENOME; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS PANNORUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; FUNGI; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; ENZYME STABILITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBTILISIN;

EID: 84925428108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120508     Document Type: Article

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