Expression and biochemical characterisation of recombinant AceA, a bacterial α-mannosyltransferase

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 933-940

  Geremia, R A ^a   Roux, M ^a   Ferreiro, D U ^a,b   Dauphin Dubois, R ^a   Lellouch, A C ^a   Ielpi, L ^b  

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

^b Universidad Nacional del Litoral   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acetan; Acetobacter xylinum; Bacterial polysaccharide; Biosynthesis; Glycosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CELLOBIOSE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; MANNOSE; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

ACETOBACTER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPEN READING FRAMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ACETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCONACETOBACTER XYLINUS;

EID: 0032788714     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051040     Document Type: Article

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