Protein expression and purification, 66(1), 91-101 (2009-02-24)
Metalloaminopeptidases (mAPs) are enzymes that are involved in HIV infectivity, tumor growth and metastasis, angiogenesis, and bacterial infection. Investigation of structure-function relationships in mAPs is a prerequisite to rational design of anti-mAP chemotherapeutics. The most intensively studied member of the
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 294(1), 91-97 (1992-04-01)
The heat-stable aminopeptidase from Aeromonas proteolytica has been purified using two new procedures, with the aim of preparing large single crystals for X-ray analysis. In a first procedure, we tried to avoid any drastic conditions capable of inducing microheterogeneities in
The chemical properties of zinc make it an ideal metal to study the role of coordination strain in enzymatic rate enhancement. The zinc ion and the protein residues that are bound directly to the zinc ion represent a functional charge/dipole
The Biochemical journal, 341 ( Pt 1), 25-31 (1999-06-23)
An aminopeptidase from Aeromonas caviae T-64 was translated as a preproprotein consisting of three domains; a signal peptide (19 amino acid residues), an N-terminal propeptide (101 residues) and a mature region (273 residues). We demonstrated that a proteinase, which was
The Journal of biological chemistry, 279(30), 31018-31025 (2004-05-13)
Glutamate 151 has been proposed to act as the general acid/base during the peptide hydrolysis reaction catalyzed by the co-catalytic metallohydrolase from Aeromonas proteolytica (AAP). However, to date, no direct evidence has been reported for the role of Glu-151 during
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