Enzymology and folding of natural and engineered bacterial β-glucanases studied by X-ray crystallography

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 377, Issue 7-8, 1996, Pages 447-454

  Heinemann, Udo ^a,b   Aÿ, Jacqueline ^a   Gaiser, Olaf ^a   Müller, Jürgen J ^a   Ponnuswamy, Mondikalipudur N ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

glucan hydrolysis; Circular permutation; Crystal packing; Enzyme mechanism; Enzyme specificity; Retention and inversion of configuration

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN HYDROLASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HYDROLYSIS; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACILLUS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEIN FOLDING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029805094     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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