PROTEOLYSIS IN HETEROCYST-FORMING CYANOBACTERIA - CHARACTERIZATION OF A FURTHER ENZYME WITH TRYPSIN-LIKE SPECIFICITY, AND OF A PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE FROM ANABAENA-VARIABILIS

STROHMEIER, U and GERDES, C and LOCKAU, W (1994) PROTEOLYSIS IN HETEROCYST-FORMING CYANOBACTERIA - CHARACTERIZATION OF A FURTHER ENZYME WITH TRYPSIN-LIKE SPECIFICITY, AND OF A PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE FROM ANABAENA-VARIABILIS. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG C-A JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES, 49 (1-2). pp. 70-78. ISSN 0939-5075,

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Abstract

Soluble extracts of the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 and an engineered mutant that lacks an intracellular protease cleaving after Lys and Arg (Maldener, Lockau, Cai, and Wolk, Mel. Gen. Genet. 225, 113-120 (1991)) were separated by ion exchange chromatography, and protease profiles determined using azocasein, N alpha-benzoyl-D,L-arginine-4-nitroanilide and N-carbobenzoxy-glycyl-L-proline-4-nitroanilide as substrates. A second enzyme cleaving at the carboxyl side of lysine and arginine, and a prolyl endopeptidase were detected, enriched and characterized. Both proteolytic enzymes appear to be located in the periplasm.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: PROLINE-SPECIFIC ENDOPEPTIDASE; FLAVOBACTERIUM-MENINGOSEPTICUM; DIFFERENTIATION; PROTEIN; CLONING; IDENTIFICATION; GENE; ANABAENA VARIABILIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; HETEROCYSTS; PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES; PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 08:41
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/53611

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