Acceptor specificity of the human leukocyte α3 fucosyltransferase: Role of FucT-VII in the generation of selectin ligands

Glycobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 321-327

  Britten, Christopher J ^a   Van Den Eijnden, Dirk H ^b   McDowell, William ^a   Kelly, Valerie A ^a   Witham, Sara J ^a   Edbrooke, Mark R ^a   Bird, Michael I ^a   De Vries, Theodora ^b   Smithers, Nicholas ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 fucosyltransferase; FucT VII; Leukocyte; Selectin ligands

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INSECTS; KINETICS; LEUKOCYTES; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SELECTINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

INSECTA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 0031950230     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.4.321     Document Type: Article

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