Unraveling the difference between invertases and fructan exohydrolases: A single amino acid (Asp-239) substitution transforms arabidopsis cell wall invertase1 into a fructan 1-exohydrolase

Plant Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 616-625

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; FRUCTOSE; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS CELLS; ASPARTATE (ASP); ENZYMES LACKING; REAL INVERTASES;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CICHORIUM INTYBUS;

EID: 35848947357     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.105049     Document Type: Article

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