An archaeal protein evolutionarily conserved in prokaryotes is a zinc-dependent metalloprotease
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An archaeal protein evolutionarily conserved in prokaryotes is a zinc-dependent metalloprotease
A putative protease gene (tldD) was previously identified from studying tolerance of letD encoding the CcdB toxin of a toxin-antidote system of the F plasmid in Escherichia coli. While this gene is evolutionarily conserved in archaea and bacteria, the proteolytic activity of encoded proteins remained to be demonstrated experimentally. Here we studied Sso0660, an archaeal TldD homologue encoded ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioscience Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0144-8463,1573-4935
DOI: 10.1042/bsr20120074