The substrate specificity of the snail Lymnaea stagnalis UDP-GlcNAc: GlcNAcβ-R β4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase reveals a novel variant pathway of complex-type oligosaccharide synthesis

Glycobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 539-548

  Bakker, Hans ^a   Schoenmakers, Pascale S ^a   Koeleman, Carolien A M ^a   Joziasse, David H ^a   Van Die, Irma ^a   Van Den Eijnden, Dirk H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complex type glycans; Galactosyltransferase; Glycosyltransferase; Prostate gland

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLLACTOSAMINE SYNTHASE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; LACTALBUMIN; LYMNAEA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PROSTATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; INSECTA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MAMMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030913134     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/7.4.539     Document Type: Article

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