A UDP glucosyltransferase from Bacillus subtilis successively transfers up to four glucose residues to 1,2-diacylglycerol: Expression of ypfP in Escherichia coil and structural analysis of its reaction products

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 419-430

  Jorasch, Petra ^a   Wolter, Frank P ^a   Zähringer, Ulrich ^b   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIACYLGLYCEROL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGLYCERIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031848910     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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