Structure of a carbohydrate esterase from Bacillus anthracis

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 250-252

  Oberbarnscheidt, Leoni ^a   Taylor, Edward J ^a   Davies, Gideon J ^a   Gloster, Tracey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE ESTERASE; DEACETYLASE CE4; ESTERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESTERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

EID: 33845623281     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21217     Document Type: Article

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