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Citations number
48
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
The pepC gene of Listeria monocytogenes encodes aminopeptidase C that is pr
edicted to share 72% amino acid sequence similarity and 53% sequence identi
ty with the cysteine aminopeptidase PepC from Lactococcus lactis. The gene
product also shows strong similarity to aminopeptidase C from Streptococcus
thermophilus and Lactobacillus helveticus, and to a cysteine proteinase/bl
eomycin hydrolase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The enzyme from L. monocyt
ogenes displayed broad N-terminal hydrolytic activity, with a similar subst
rate specificity to its lactic acid bacterial counterpart. The inhibition s
pectrum shows a great deal of similarity with enzymes from the family of la
ctic acid bacteria. In addition, one of the clones studied contained DNA se
quences that could encode a regulatory protein of the deoR helix-turn-helix
DNA binding protein family. The organization of the locus, designated pep,
is presented along with the characterization of the gene products of the p
ep locus.