Fructosyltransferase mutants specify a function for the β-fructosidase motif of the sucrose-binding box in specifying the fructan type synthesized

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 853-863

  Ritsema, Tita ^a,b   Verhaar, Auke ^a   Vijn, Irma ^a   Smeekens, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Domain swaps; Fructans; Fructosyltransferase; Site directed mutagenesis; Sucrose; Vacuolar invertase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; MUTAGENS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

FRUCTOSYL RESIDUE; FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; ONION SUCROSE; SUCROSE-BINDING BOX;

ENZYMES;

1 KESTOSE; 1-KESTOSE; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INULOSUCRASE; SUCROSE; TRISACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; FRUCTANS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE; TRISACCHARIDES;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; MUTAGENS; SUCROSE;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 12344311504     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-004-0276-1     Document Type: Article

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