Trends in Microbiology 2001-Nov
Tricorn-like proteases in bacteria.
Numai utilizatorii înregistrați pot traduce articole
Log In / Înregistrare
Linkul este salvat în clipboard
Cuvinte cheie
Abstract
The tricorn protease is an archaeal protease that forms massive proteasome-like capsids with a hollow chamber. beta-Propeller and PDZ domains are thought to play a role in substrate selection. By analysis of predicted proteins from novel bacterial genome sequences, we have identified four new bacterial tricorn-like proteases, complete with similar beta-propeller, PDZ and catalytic domains. We propose various hypotheses as to the function of these domains that can now be tested in the laboratory.