Sequencing of oligoarabinosyl units released from mycobacterial arabinogalactan by endogenous arabinanase: Identification of distinctive and novel structural motifs

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 15817-15828

  Lee, Arwen ^a   Wu, Sz Wei ^b   Scherman, Michael S ^c   Torrelles, Jordi B ^c   Chatterjee, Delphi ^c   McNeil, Michael R ^c   Khoo, Kay Hooi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS ARABINANASE; ENERGY COLLISION; MYCOBACTERIAL ARABINOGALACTAN; MYCOLYL-ARABINOGALACTAN (AG); OLIGOARABINOSYL UNITS;

DISSOCIATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

ARABINAN; ARABINANASE; ARABINOFURAN; ARABINOGALACTAN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; LIPOARABINOMANNAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARABINOSE; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CELLULOMONAS; GALACTANS; GALACTOSAMINE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ARA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33845917589     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi060688d     Document Type: Article

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