Insights into the fine architecture of the active site of chicory fructan 1-exohydrolase: 1-Kestose as substrate vs sucrose as inhibitor

New Phytologist

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-100

  Verhaest, Maureen ^a   Lammens, Willem ^a,b   Le Roy, Katrien ^b   De Ranter, Camiel J ^a   Van Laere, André ^b   Rabijns, Anja ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Faculteit Wetenschappen   (Belgium)

Author keywords

1 kestose; Fructan exohydrolase (FEH); Glycoside hydrolase family 32; Invertase; Protein crystallization; Sucrose; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

1 KESTOSE; 1-KESTOSE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FRUCTAN BETA FRUCTOSIDASE; FRUCTAN BETA-FRUCTOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE; SUCROSE; TRISACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANGIOSPERM; CATALYSIS; INHIBITOR; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICORY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHICORY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUCROSE; TRISACCHARIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICHORIUM INTYBUS;

EID: 33847344810     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.01988.x     Document Type: Article

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