A zinc metalloprotease inhibitor, Inh, from the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens
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A zinc metalloprotease inhibitor, Inh, from the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens.
The entomopathogen Photorhabdus luminescens secretes many proteins during the late stages of insect larvae infection and during in vitro laboratory culture. The authors have previously characterized and purified a 55 kDa zinc metalloprotease, PrtA, from culture supernatants of P. luminescens. PrtA is secreted via a classical type I secretory pathway and is encoded within the operon prtA-inh-prt...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1350-0872,1465-2080
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-8-2427