Endopeptidases

PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Partial Characterization of an Enzyme Fraction with Protease Activity Which Converts the Spore Peptidoglycan Hydrolase (SleC) Precursor to an Active Enzyme during Germination of Clostridium perfringens S40 Spores and Analysis of a Gene Cluster Involved in the Activity
Seiko Shimamoto, Ryuichi Moriyama, Kazuhiro Sugimoto, Shigeru Miyata, Shio Makino
CELL SURFACES
Novel Lysophospholipase A Secreted byLegionella pneumophila
Antje Flieger, Shimei Gong, Marion Faigle, Stefan Stevanovic, Nicholas P. Cianciotto, Birgid Neumeister
PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM
A PhoP-Regulated Outer Membrane Protease of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Promotes Resistance to Alpha-Helical Antimicrobial Peptides
Tina Guina, Eugene C. Yi, Houle Wang, Murray Hackett, Samuel I. Miller
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Proteolysis of Bacteriophage λ CII byEscherichia coli FtsH (HflB)
Yoram Shotland, Amir Shifrin, Tamar Ziv, Dinah Teff, Simi Koby, Oren Kobiler, Amos B. Oppenheim
ENZYMES AND PROTEINS
Characterization of the Streptococcal C5a Peptidase Using a C5a-Green Fluorescent Protein Fusion Protein Substrate
D. K. Stafslien, P. P. Cleary
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Evidence that SpoIVFB Is a Novel Type of Membrane Metalloprotease Governing Intercompartmental Communication duringBacillus subtilis Sporulation
Yuen-Tsu Nicco Yu, Lee Kroos
ENZYMES AND PROTEINS
Sulfolobicins, Specific Proteinaceous Toxins Produced by Strains of the Extremely Thermophilic Archaeal GenusSulfolobus
David Prangishvili, Ingelore Holz, Evelyn Stieger, Stephan Nickell, Jakob K. Kristjansson, Wolfram Zillig
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Type IV Pilus Genes pilA andpilC of Pseudomonas stutzeri Are Required for Natural Genetic Transformation, and pilA Can Be Replaced by Corresponding Genes from Nontransformable Species
Stefan Graupner, Verena Frey, Rozita Hashemi, Michael G. Lorenz, Gudrun Brandes, Wilfried Wackernagel
ENZYMES AND PROTEINS
Reinvestigation of the Proteolytic Activity of Neocarzinostatin
Bernadette Heyd, Guilhem Lerat, Elisabeth Adjadj, Philippe Minard, Michel Desmadril
CELL SURFACES
Two Regions of EpsL Involved in Species-Specific Protein-Protein Interactions with EpsE and EpsM of the General Secretion Pathway inVibrio cholerae
Maria Sandkvist, Jerry M. Keith, Michael Bagdasarian, S. Peter Howard

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