The chitin catabolic cascade in the marine bacterium Vibrio cholerae: Characterization of a unique chitin oligosaccharide deacetylase

Glycobiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1377-1387

  Li, Xibing ^a   Wang, Lai Xi ^b   Wang, Xuesong ^a   Roseman, Saul ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitin oligosaccharide deacetylase; Extracellular; Penultimate GlcNAc; Vibrios

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN OLIGOSACCHARIDE DEACETYLASE; CHITOBIOSE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; NITROUS OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATALYSIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME RELEASE; GENBANK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHITIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; KINETICS; LIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROUS ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PHOTOBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 36249003867     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwm096     Document Type: Article

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