Role of peptide sequence and neighboring residue glycosylation on the substrate specificity of the uridine 5'-diphosphate-α-N- acetylgalactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyl transferases T1 and T2: Kinetic modeling of the porcine and canine submaxillary gland mucin tandem repeats

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 9888-9900

  Gerken, Thomas A ^a   Tep, Chhavy ^a   Rarick, Jason ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYME KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SUBSTRATES;

PEPTIDE SEQUENCE; SERINE;

PROTEINS;

ALPHA N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; GLYCAN; HYDROXYAMINO ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; MUCIN; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE T1; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE T2; POLYPEPTIDE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DOG; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1 HINGE DOMAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SWINE; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPROTEINS; CATTLE; DOGS; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3342960623     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049178e     Document Type: Article

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