X-ray structure of an anti-fungal chitosanase from streptomyces N174

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-162

  Marcotte, Edward M ^a   Monzingo, Arthur F ^a   Ernst, Stephen R ^a   Brzezinski, Ryszard ^b   Robertus, Jon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; CHITOSANASE; HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STREPTOMYCES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STEREOISOMERISM; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0030030381     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0296-155     Document Type: Article

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