The Bacillus subtilis Gne (GneA, GalE) protein can catalyse UDP-glucose as well as UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 4-epimerisation

Gene

Volumn 319, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 65-69

  Soldo, Blazenka ^a   Scotti, Claudio ^a,b   Karamata, Dimitri ^a   Lazarevic, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell wall teichoic acid synthesis; Mutation mapping; UDP galactose; UDP glucose

Indexed keywords

ANION; BACTERIAL ENZYME; EPIMERASE; HEXOSE; POLYMER; PROTEIN GNE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE HEXOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 4 EPIMERASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLHEXOSAMINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE SUGAR;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EPIMERIZATION; GENE MAPPING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GALE;

EID: 0242321241     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00793-5     Document Type: Article

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