Conserved structural features in eukaryotic and prokaryotic fucosyltransferases

Glycobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-94

  Breton, Christelle ^a   Oriol, Rafael ^b   Imberty, Anne ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES SUR LES MACROMOLÉCULES VÉGÉTALES CERMAV CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Fucosyltransferases; Hydrophobic cluster analysis; Protein sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHICKEN; CHIMPANZEE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROKARYOTA; SUS SCROFA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0031909680     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.1.87     Document Type: Article

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