Four critical aspartic acid residues potentially involved in the catalytic mechanism of Escherichia coli K-12 WaaR

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-109

  Shibayama, Keigo ^a   Ohsuka, Shinji ^a   Sato, Kumiko ^a   Yokoyama, Keiko ^a   Horii, Toshinobu ^a   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catalytic mechanism; Escherichia coli WaaR; Glucosyltransferase; Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032901926     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00127-5     Document Type: Article

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