Chitinases, chitosanases, and lysozymes can be divided into procaryotic and eucaryotic families sharing a conserved core

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-140

  Monzingo, Arthur F ^a   Marcotte, Edward M ^a   John Hart, P ^a   Robertus, Jon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHITINASE; CHITOSANASE; LYSOZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BARLEY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; EVOLUTION; GOOSE; HEN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHITINASE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 0030032332     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0296-133     Document Type: Review

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