Novel processive and nonprocessive glycosyltransferases from Staphylococcus aureus and Arabidopsis thaliana synthesize glycoglycerolipids, glycophospholipids, glycosphingolipids and glycosylsterols

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3770-3783

  Jorasch, Petra ^a   Warnecke, Dirk C ^a   Lindner, Buko ^b   Zähringer, Ulrich ^b   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Institut für Allgemeine Botanik ^*

Author keywords

Cerebroside; Glucosyl sterol; Glucosyltransferase; Glycoglycerolipid; Processivity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIACYLGLYCEROL; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDE; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; GLYCOPHOSPHOLIPID; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; STEROL DERIVATIVE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CERAMIDES; CHOLESTEROL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLYCEROL; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEROLS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033944623     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01414.x     Document Type: Article

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