Donor substrate specificity of recombinant human blood group A, B and hybrid A/B glycosyltransferases expressed in Escherichia coli

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 770-775

  Seto, Nina O L ^a   Compston, Catherine A ^b   Evans, Stephen V ^c   Bundle, David R ^b   Narang, Saran A ^a   Palcic, Monica M ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood groups; Carbohydrate antigens; Enzyme kinetics; Glycosyltransferases; Recombinant

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM; COMPUTER MODEL; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033083847     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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