Role of a Single Amino Acid in the Evolution of Glycans of Invertebrates and Vertebrates

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 365, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 570-576

  Ramakrishnan, Boopathy ^a,b   Qasba, Pradman K ^a  

^a Ctr Cancer Res   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

donor substrate specificity; evolutionary relationship; invertbrate 4GalNAc T1; single mutation; vertbrate 4Gal T1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; AMINO ACID; BETA 1,4 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; BETA N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLGLYCOPEPTIDE BETA 1,4 GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCAN; GLYCOCONJUGATE; GLYCOLIPID; ISOLEUCINE; LACTOSE; LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845634841     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.10.034     Document Type: Article

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