Pseudomonas aeruginosa lasB1 mutants produce an elastase, substituted at active-site His-223, that is defective in activity, processing, and secretion.

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes elastase in a multistep process which begins with the synthesis of a preproelastase (53.6 kDa) encoded by lasB, is followed by processing to proelastase (51 kDa), and concludes with the rapid accumulation of mature elastase (33 kDa) in the extracellular environment. In this study, mutants of P. aeruginosa were constructed by gene replacement which expressed lasB1, an allele altered...

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