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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sitrit Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC177160 | biostudies-other | 1995 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sitrit Y Y Vorgias C E CE Chet I I Oppenheim A B AB
Journal of bacteriology 19950701 14
The chiA gene from Aeromonas caviae encodes an extracellular chitinase, 865 amino acids long, that shows a high degree of similarity to chitinase A of Serratia marcescens. Expression in Escherichia coli yielded an enzymatically active protein from which a leader sequence was removed, presumably during transport of the enzyme across the cell membrane. ...[more]